One Show to Rule them All, the brainchild of Don Jordan, is a recital of music inspired by JRR Tolkein’s fantasy saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Windjammer Brass Ensemble accompanies baritone Robert Dora and soprano Samantha Fraser in the performance of Donald Swann’s 1967 song cycle The Road Goes Ever On (for brass) but the program also includes […]

Gruesome Playground Injuries, the 2008 play by American playwright Rajiv Josef, makes its Melbourne debut at this years’ Fringe Festival. It’s the ambitious first project from NewCharacter Productions (actors Katarina Viva Schøller and Nicholas Jaquinot), directed by David Ward. The piece follows the lives of Kayleen and Doug over the span of thirty years. Their first meeting, […]

Hamlet [Working Title] is making its Melbourne debut following success at Sydney’s Spectrum Now festival in March 2015 and Sydney Fringe Festival 2014. It’s an energetic, irreverent one-man show with equal potential to offend and amuse. Hamlet [Working Title] is highly self-referential production that assumes a high level of familiarity with the original text. It’s […]

A hardboiled detective, a femme fatale, jazz: some things never go out of style, and no one understands this better than Jeremy Rice, the director of a new play celebrating detective fiction. Rice’s company, Always Working Artists (AWA) has made theatre across Australia for fourteen years; their Melbourne Fringe Festival debut in 2014 with Royals: The True […]

Frank Duyker comes prepared for our interview. Eager to illustrate the merits of his perhaps unusual materials, the sculptor removes three unlikely objects from his pocket. There is a brown square ceramic block with gold plates and pins arranged on the surface, or a CPU chip circa 1989, as he likes to call it. There’s […]