Jodie Goldring’s installation ‘Dining with Cordyceps’ lures us into a trance with the cordycep’s eerie beauty before revealing the predatory nature of the fungi. Goldring collaborates with basketmakers Barbara Hawkins and Sue Dilley in this stunning exhibition to highlight her concern with the “insidious changes to our domestic environment and consumption habits over the last […]

After All This, by award winning ensemble Elbow Room (director Marcel Dorney, Angus Grant and Emily Tomlins), is an uncomfortable-in-a-good-way look at contemporary views of the afterlife.  The performance is put to us on three stages, which weave their way upwards through the beautiful space that is the Dear Patti Smith building leading to a […]

Paul Culliver and Max Attwood’s show: In No Particular Order, performed in an  overground bomb shelter at the top of three flights stairs at the Portland Hotel, is definitely not a place for tinned food,  Wagner scores or falling rubble, it is an environment of emerging, young comedic talent. The show is split into two […]

“Beautiful thing logic, provided it’s not abused”: this seems a strange sentence to exist in a play that features people spontaneously metamorphosing into giant horned creatures. Yet it is an irony that seems cohesive as, right from the onset, Rhinoceros is illogically logical. So, shuffle into the cosy Owl and the Pussycat, perch yourself on […]

Billed as “a short comedic history of rebellion in Australia,” Micah D. Higbed’s ‘Rebels and Radicals’ identifies the acts of protest and heroism that have defined Australia’s past and continue to echo in the present. Mixed with snippets of autobiography, Higbed asks his audience to take a long hard look at the historical importance of […]