My Melbourne Arts

Amy and Ester share very little in common, apart from their place in the school swim team. But dive a little deeper and these two women disc...

Narcissus takes centre stage in Emily Carr's new work as a young woman hell-bent on winning the Miss World Australia beauty pageant. Wit...

Helen of Troy might be a familiar figure to people when it comes to Greek mythology but she is generally recognised as the cause of the Troj...

Edith Aldridge has just 90 minutes to prepare for the most important day of her life, and it's not her wedding. Makeup artist Rosie has ...

We may see fences as the boundary of our property, where one house ends and another one starts. But what happens when that fence is literall...

Helen and Clytemnestra. Sisters whose place in mythology has been one of persecution and revile. One is responsible for sel...

We're all guilty of thinking the grass is always greener but we don't often get to find out for certain if this is true. In Yvonne...

Four young girls living in a Catholic reformatory in 1914 experience an awakening when they come across Margaret Sanger’s Family Lim...

Made by a group of formerly homeless women over the age of 50, UnHOWsed pr ovides an opportunity for these women to share their experien...

In Suzie Hardgrave's The Disappearing Trilogy , gender and character come under the spotlight with an actor expressing her confusion and...

An elderly woman sit patiently, but also impatiently, on a chair. She is waiting. For what, we do not know. Eventually a young woman arriv...

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, experimental theatre company The Danger Ensemble's Let Men Tremble...

In Islamic religion, Muslim men who die as "believers" are rewarded with 72 beautiful perpetual virgins as wives in heaven. Thes...

In her essay, Women and Fiction , Virginia Woolf discussed why women throughout history were so limited in achieving success in literature....

It can be difficult to move forward when you can't let go of the past . Where you spend your time reminisc ing about your younger yea...

Climate change, gender equality and the role of women in society all come together in Laura Lethlean's The Three Graces . Manifesting...

In 2015, Sophie Joske performed her first solo show called Become a Functional Adult in 45 Minutes, a cautionary tale on society programming...

Jamie Boiskin has the ultimate entrance for a cabaret about periods. Popping her head between a slit in a red curtain she eventually pushes ...

The Fringe Wives Club return to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with Glittergrass , a feminist explosion of music, comedy and...

Butch. A butch woman. A woman who has masculine traits, behaviours and styles. For The Butch Monologues , playwright Laura Bridgeman inter...