My Melbourne Arts

Eight hours before stepping into Opera for the Dead | 祭歌 , I had been at a funeral. It was a death that arrives without warning, even after ...

The reach of AI into everyday life is becoming both alarmingly blatant and quietly ingenious. We’ve grown used to fabricated videos, fake ne...

Victory Lap is a semi-autobiographical one-person show by Mashaka Gunnulson that gently and sensitively explores mental health and suicide ...

A crying room is a small, soundproof room in theatres and churches where a person can visit if they are feeling emotional but want to contin...

One inescapable fact in life is that death will always come for us in the end. No matter what we do, life can end at any moment. While that ...

In February 2020, while dealing with bushfires and the looming pandemic, Michele Lee called her parents every day for 30 minutes. How Do I L...

When Bradley Storer suddenly appears in the basement space of The Butterfly Club, it's as if he's always been there. The melancholy ...

To many, the name Mary Coustas is an instant reminder of the Australian icon that is Effie Stephanidis, the character Coustas portrayed on t...

Ben Stevenson's mother used to call him a ratbag. When she suddenly died, Stevenson had to find some sense of meaning to her death. In R...

Between February 2020 to August 2022, Joshua Ladgrove was the full-time carer for his 97 year-old Ukrainian grandmother. While death can be ...

New Zealand performer Barnie Duncan returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a show that is quite unlike what he has done...

The Accountants of Death will see you now. Back for another Melbourne season after a hugely successful 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival wher...

Death is inescapable . We are all going to die. Unfortunately, few of us are given a say on how or when we will die. With the recent introdu...

"It makes life so much easier when everybody knows its time", says one character in Belinda Lopez's The Window Outside . Pr...

Everybody loves a good party, especially George. He's got a wife, two kids and a boiled chocolate cake. Life is perfect. Until the mom...

It’s may be almost 170 years since Gothic literature writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances but in Broad Encounters i...

Imagine you’re a 34-year-old man with a job that while you might not love , it allows you to live the happy life you lead . What you do l...

The greatest mystery in life is death. Not only what happens after we die but also the not knowing when death might come. I could choke on...

Every year I say to myself no more saying yes to going to all the show s in Melbourne and while I exaggerate , I do end up go in g to a l...

Violet and Norman are a 120 year old couple. While their lives might not be as fast paced as they once were, the love and affection they s...