PIAF REVIEW: No Guts, No Heart, No Glory
Drawing upon interviews with real girls and co-devised with the play’s cast, the piece is an innovative, engaging and unique production. Kevin Chiat reviews.
Live Review: Cosmo’s Midnight with Kučka and Feki @ Jack Rabbit Slim’s
For those who came just to see Cosmo’s Midnight (and there were plenty), you’d be entitled to expect some alternative renditions, at least some simple synth looping, and more professionalism.…
FRINGE REVIEW: The War on Food
I don’t know about you, but whenever I buy groceries I constantly worry about the possibility of a dystopian future where a single company has control over all of our…
Review: The Life of Pablo
For most of us, that part-fabricated, all-celebrity iconic soup marinates his entire identity, and unfortunately for The Life of Pablo, any alternative interpretation you could try scooping out of his…
For Your Commiseration: An Antidote to #OscarsSoWhite
"Let us be clear. The Academy has a diversity problem. The film industry has a diversity crisis." In the run-up to the whitewashed 2016 Oscars, Jaymes Durante writes about the…
Fringe World Review: R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet with Sam Cribb
Receiving a personal invitation to view it is like joining a Skull and Bones sundowner: the logistics and lingo might not make a lot of sense, but you know witnessing…
The Worldwide Bern: Sanders, Youth Politics and Australia
It is not uncommon to find Germans, English, and Australians showing their support and sharing their desire for a candidate like Sanders in their own country; a candidate who they…
Fringe World Review: Snake/Bad Adam
If you’re looking for something to really sink your teeth into and to leave you breathless, ‘Snake/Bad Adam’ is worth every moment. And you had better not bring your folks…
Interview: Matthew Lehmann (West Australian Ballet)
"Here, most people are quite welcoming to the fact I do ballet, it’s only guys in suits that seem to have a problem with me. Bikers I meet at the…
Review: Brooklyn
Brooklyn, about voyages across physical seas and oceans of sentiment, is so refreshingly amorous to the eye and the heart that I could easily consider it radical. Jaymes Durante reviews.