Review: Birdoir
When your immediate post-show notes resemble an Alan Ginsberg beat poem you know you’ve seen a show: I saw the best minds of my generation transformed into seagulls, starving, hilarious, preening, dragging themselves thr...
Category: Events
ADAM
The remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make a life-changing decision, Gavin Roach presents the Australian premiere of ADAM by Frances Poet at Gasworks Arts Park as part of the 2020 Midsumma Festival fro...
Review: Rust
Rust is an immersive theatre show that takes place among the rooms and grounds of the Alliance Française de Melbourne. Once the story establishes itself, as various characters head off to different rooms or outside the a...
Review: The Campaign
The Campaign, written by Campion Decent and directed by Peter Blackburn, is a wonderful work of theatre that exists in an engaging Venn Diagram space where the circles for creative non-fiction and verbatim theatre overla...
Review: Poorly Drawn Shark
Poorly Drawn Shark is arguably one of the best shows you will see during Midsumma 2020. Part memory play, part power point presentation, part lecture on the intersection of colonialism and fetish, performers Ming Yang Li...
Review: AS ONE
As One stakes a claim as the first chamber opera to consider a “transgender experience”. Presented by Gertrude Opera at Midsumma 2020, this is the work’s Australian premiere season. The work shows us the progression of a...
