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Review: Metropolis challenges what a musical can be
Charlotte likes musicals that do something new. Metropolis is a dystopian musical written in six months by the brilliant team at Little Eggs Collective. Read Charlotte’s review of it here.
Review: UFO is a chance to watch the magic happen
Mitchell is a finance bro with film bro origins. UFO, by re:group collective, is a live cinema experience that played at Griffin Theatre as part of Griffin Lookout. Read Mitchell’s review of it here.
Essay: when you’ve got ovaries, every choice is a public debate
Lana hates when people ask her “when” she’s going to have kids. She had a weird dream about being stuck in an elevator with her ex, and turned it into a play called Expiration Date. Read her essay about writing and staging it here!
Review: 35mm is a simple production with anything but simple vocals
Nelson has seen more theatre than anything else. Rising Arts Productions’ 35mm blends music, photography and incredible local talent to mixed effect. Read Nelson’s review of it here!
Review: Fantastic Mr Fox from the mouths of babes
Jemima is 13. Theo is 9. Last week their big sister Charlotte took them to shake & stir’s Fantastic Mr Fox and then asked them a bunch of questions about it. Read their answers here!
Review: let’s learn ballet with Don Quixote
Ceridwen is a weird horror film nerd who loves to perform interdisciplinary research. Last weekend she attended The Australian Ballet’s Don Quixote in a “pas de quatre” (a step of four). Learn some new ballet words with Ced in her review here!
Essay: Belvoir’s Into the Woods demonstrates musical theatre’s constant dilemma
Charlotte is on a mission to intellectualise musical theatre. Belvoir’s new version of Into the Woods is smart and exciting, but ultimately not confident enough in its vision to create something new. Read Charlotte’s review/essay about it here.
Review: SHIT doesn’t quite make the jump from theatre to film
Charlotte is a theatre nerd and Ceridwen is a film nerd. Last weekend they both saw Patricia Cornelius, Susie Dee and Trudy Hellier’s SHIT, a film based on a play of the same name and made by a very similar creative team. Read their review of it here.
Review: No Love Lost is best enjoyed with an open heart
Zoe loves love. So does Martha. No Love Lost is a zine mausoleum for love poems that have not withstood the test of time, published by Baby Teeth Journal. Read Zoe and Martha’s egg and tofu scramble review (with spring onions by Charlotte) here.
Review: the ArtsLab: Body of Work festival is an encouraging glimpse of our artistic future
Charlotte is easily excited by new work by new voices. ArtsLab: Body of Work is the culmination of Shopfront Arts Co-Op’s emerging artists program, featuring two gallery works and three performance works. Read Charlotte’s review of the ArtsLab “marathon” here.
Review: Gundog is brilliant and bleak
Bec likes to hurt her own feelings. Gundog is a brilliant and bleak work, the despair of which seeps into you for days after you’ve left the theatre. Read Bec’s review of it here
Review: Apocka-wocka-lockalypse reaches beyond the fuzzy wuzzy puppet sillies
Charlotte loves silly things, bright colours and Play School. Apocka-wocka-locka-lypse has all three of those things, plus some climate crisis nightmare fuel. Read Charlotte’s review of it here.
Review: Comfort, Spin, Travel is overshadowed by the play it could have been
Lu Bradshaw and Fruit Box Theatre’s Comfort, Spin, Travel has good intentions, but ultimately doesn’t always execute them. Read Bec’s review of the play here.
Peer Review: Anything You Can Do or, On the Origin of Data
Martha is a bad scientist and a bad artist. Anything You Can Do by Pony Cam is bad science. Read Martha’s bad peer review of it here.
Kaleidoscope Recs: five bits of theatre that aren’t afraid to go big
Richard Hilliar is a person who believes you should go to the theatre to see capital T THEATRE. He’s also the writer/director of Apocka-wocka-lockalypse, a play with puppets singing about climate collapse. Check out his recommendations for five bits of theatre that aren’t afraid to go big coming up this March/April.
Essay: on performing the oldest profession
Maddy is a sex worker of many kinds and a musical theatre performer of many other kinds. Sometimes she’s even performed as a sex worker in a musical, and she’s sick of the harmful way sex work is shown on the stage, screen and elsewhere. Read her essay about it here.
Review: Blessed Union brings the queer family kitchen to the stage
Charlotte is a little enby child of divorce who doesn’t know how to cook for one person. Read their review of Maeve Marsden’s debut play, a lesbian divorce comedy set in a family kitchen, here!
Kaleidoscope Recs: the Dyke’s Guide to music at Sydney WorldPride
Bec is a super cool music dyke (see picture). She’s put together a list of the best gigs and events you should spend your gay little dollars on this WorldPride. Read it here!
Review: this is a choose-your-own review of Burgerz
Martha hates art and burgers (not really). This is both a positive and a negative review of Travis Alabanza’s one-person show featuring Kikki Temple that she wrote. Read it here!
Review: plenty of fish in the sea is a thrilling adventure
Charlotte hates dating apps and loves absurdist fiction/theatre. Read their review of the absurdist play about finding the perfect catch by Clockfire Theatre Company here!