Words by Brianna Bullen I sit alone at a desk. I’m at a library at the end of a long line of restaurants in Docklands, overlooking the water. I can see through a strip of glass outside to construction sites, half-finished but dense, as the book seems to be at times. Ripe for transformation. The […]

Words by Tom Taylor We, the congregants, enter and are asked to inspect the relics of the church. This church is a space at Footscray Community Arts Centre, not perfect, a little new and boxy, will do. Hymn sheets at the ready, the service is underway. A trio of cloaked, older women lead us in […]

Words by Brooke Munday When the Grimm brothers published their first collection of famous German fairy tales they couldn’t have predicted the phenomenon that would ensue, nor could they have guessed that just over 200 years later those same fairy tales would be transformed into the slapstick musical medley that is the Half Brothers Grimm. […]

Words by Eleanor Boydell I’m uncomfortable. No no, the seat is fine and the temperature is okay – it’s what’s happening on stage that’s doing it. Watching Sediment, the genre-bending piece of circus, dance and live music by performer/director duo David Carberry and Chelsea McGuffin in collaboration with circus artist Alice Muntz, the tension became […]

Words by Eliza Janssen  Along with incessant photographic documentation and a militant attitude towards political correctness, millennials have long been accused of being fervently proud of their childhoods for no apparent reason. I should know. I’m a certified member of this mob. Merely mentioning the early 2000’s in the right group of 18-to-25-year-olds is enough to […]