Living with other people is tedious. People are known to ‘borrow’ your possessions, mock your lifestyle choices, have raucous sex during the night, and most importantly, forget that water has a boiling point. They impersonate you for entertainment, and tell other people about you – but not as much as Party At My House does. […]

It’s not an uncommon story: big business/progress/industry comes to a small town and things change. Some people ride the sparkling wave of opportunity and prosperity and others are left behind. The play Sepia is not about anything new or groundbreaking, but it portrays this frequently occurring struggle with honesty and heart.   Neil is a cuttle-fisherman […]

Blending Parisian jazz into the kind of classy, carefully wardrobed group that would give most folk bands a run for their money, Parlour Games proves pleasant and smooth entertainment for the night. Singer Biddy Frank guides the audience through the night’s repertoire, detailing her own travels and experiences with the music performed as a narrative […]

Doll heads suspended in gelatine, computer interface graphics emerging in a black lit room, enormous cardboard structures adorned by plastic toys and the delicate imprint of flora in glass – these four extremely diverse exhibitions are currently on show at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery. Leonie Ryan’s Disturbed Habitats is a series of drawings and sculptures […]

Pure improvisation is a difficult craft to master. By its very nature, it’s a skill which is constantly being refined and developed to no end.  Almost everyone, not just trained actors, has experienced that moment of terror where you are forced to trust your instincts and follow through on an idea which has had mere […]