Words by Tom Taylor 30 September 2016 Dear Victoria, I saw your show, Les Femmes Sauvages de Dieu, last night at The Meat Market in North Melbourne. Afterwards, I went to talk about it with the security guard but he wanted to talk about Hillary and Donald. I tried then to tell my housemate but […]

Words by Fabrice Wilmann “Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that’s what we face when we’re dealing with improvisation.” Jan Garbarek Improvisation is an art. It can be a hideously butchered experience if the actors are not skilled in listening to each other or are unable to adapt to their surroundings. But when done […]

Words by Brianna Bullen Ladies and gentlemen, tonight was the night for slammers, spectacle, and simulation. And more than a little silliness. In an event marketed as poets (verbally) slamming it out in boxing gloves, it would be disappointing if it wasn’t. In the industrial setting of the perfectly-punny Second Story Studios, the audience sits […]

Words by Eliza Janssen Curmudgeonly equation of social media obsession and religious idolatry isn’t exactly a fresh idea. The mere mention of any non-analogue technology in the immediate radius of an older relative is enough to spark cries of ‘you kids worship those things!’ NXT LVL infinity, an interactive sci-fi play devised by Hot Box, […]

Words by Brianna Bullen Question: Do you believe in love? Bron Batten has spent months in the lead up to Fringe dating across Europe “for research purposes,” and the results are “bleak.” Centuries of evolution and courtship rituals have been swiped left as technology mediates ‘love’ (okay, unexpected flows of oxytocin) through a screen. A […]