My Melbourne Arts

Set in an imagined 1653 England on the brink of upheaval, S A I N T S traces friendship, belief, and survival in a world gripped by witch t...

Variations or Exit Music takes a deep look at one person's three great loves and their struggle to see through the heartbreak and belie...

In 1979, two teenagers from opposites sides of the world began writing to each other as pen pals. That friendship would ...

What are memories? What becomes of them as we - and the people with whom we’ve shared the m with - begin to get older, frailer and eve...

A man and a woman spend their evening discussing the dinner party they have attended. It's a banal conversation about who was wearing wh...

The great thing about La Mama's Explorations season, is that it gives artists the opportunity to present works in various stages of deve...

My second play by writer Adam J. Cass during this Melbourne Fringe festival continues with his running critique of society and the treatm...

In Search of Owen Roe is a story that begins from nothing. It is about Vanessa O'Neill's journey to discovering who her great-gra...

There's a strong sense of unease as I take my seat for Little Daughters . Having to walk through the seven motionless actors on the stag...

Home Invasion is a play that looks at obsession and disconnection. It's about people dealing with destructive behaviours in their li...

Remounted by MKA Theatre , The Unspoken Word Is ‘Joe’ is a play about a play about a play. I think. Things get confusing very early on. Bu...

Barking Spider Visual Theatre   has consistently created shows and performances that have a lingering effect on their audiences. Collabor...

We have all loved and lost but sometimes it is difficult to move on from that loss. Presented at La Mama as part of the 2015 Midsumma Fes...

With their recent residency at La Mama Theatre, Ilbijerri Theatre Company , Australia’s longest-running Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande...

Michael Olsen’s Dog Day Trio presents a trilogy of monologues of people lamenting and reminiscing about their contrasting and varied...

In 2013, four writers (Alan Grace, Nic Stevens, Elaine Cope and head writer Neil Triffett) created fake online personas and went on the i...

So I managed to see 123 shows in 2013 - a variety of comedy, theatre, dance, performance arts and often something in between. Here are my to...