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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!
Review: Bright Half Life holds a prismatic exploration of memory
Memory is as fickle as we are - and this non-linear play about two lovers shows you how. Read Ceridwen’s review of Bright Half Life at Meraki Arts Bar here!
Essay: Nobody Special knows how to be alone
MKA theatre brought their show for one audient to KXT on Broadway’s Vault in January. Charlotte the theatre critic doesn’t know how to be alone, or how to write about anything without inserting themselves into the narrative. This is an essay about Charlotte’s experience of Nobody Special, the show, and not being special, the life.
Kaleidoscope Recs: the Dyke’s Guide to theatre and art at Sydney WorldPride
Laneikka the lesbian playwright (pictured) and Charlotte the theatre dyke (not) have put together a list of the most exciting, history making and dyke-y bits of art coming to Sydney WorldPride this February. Read it here!
Review: Lemon Tree On Dreg Street is a glorious breath of fresh air
Clare loves cry-laughing at high octane comedy, and sometimes cry-laughing at honey-sweet new Australian work. Read her review of the breathtakingly original Lemon Tree on Dreg Street here.
Essay: the art of dwelling, or retro gaming and the sickness of nostalgia
Martha is a loser nerd who’s always trying to feel like she’s 16 again. Read her essay on retro gaming, downloading and redownloading, and nostalgia here.
Review: Blue is an enthralling portrayal of grief and love
Thomas Weatherall’s debut monologue explores a young man’s experience of family, the ocean, and coming of age. Read Bec’s review of it here.
Review: Surprise Chef ooze liquid funk
Bec is a radio host blessed with the most luxurious radio voice in the Inner West. Read her review of Surprise Chef’s recent album launch at Oxford Art Factory here.
Review: ROOM is a beautiful snapshot of modern circustry with very few answers
ROOM defies categorisation, melding music and dance, mime and circustry across a stage that is artfully arranged to look like a crumbling studio. It’s a very French adventure — read Bec’s review of it here!
Review: Manifesto is striking, but falls short of realising its full potential
Maddy and Brayden are dancers, writers, and lovers of spectacle. Read their review of Sydney Festival’s dance work Manifesto here!
Kaleidoscope’s 2022 Round Up: the art that changed the course of our year
We asked some of our writers to tell us about the pieces of art that changed the course of their year in 2022. We don’t believe in “best”, but we do believe in the power of well-made, exciting bits of creativity to make us feel things. Read about some of them here!
Sun & Sea shows us our true colours under a blistering sun
An opera performance by Lithuanian creatives Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė reflects the complexity of life by letting you watch a version of yourself on the beach. Read Bec’s review of it here.
Men I Trust is a heat-seeking missile for queer longing
Tommi Parrish’s second graphic novel explores a relationship between two characters spanning a range of emotion that is usually only skimmed in traditional novels. Read Bec’s review of it here!
The Nerves And Their Endings: essays on crisis and response is an insight into the slow doom of climate collapse
With a powerful and responsive voice, Jessica Gaitán Johannesson’s The Nerves and Their Endings holds the reader with an urgent grip lest we struggle away, put down the book, and resolve to our inaction. Read Clare’s review of it here.
Review: Venus on the Half-Shell entwines brutal beauty with Polly Pocket pretty
Clare went along to the opening night of Oigåll Projects’ Venus on the Half-Shell. Read her review of the exhibition focussing on fertility, appearance and connection here.
Kaleidoscope Recs: some poetry for people who don’t read poetry
Isabella Luna is a small kindness of ravens stacked together to form a writer, editor, and tea-enthusiast living on Dharawal Country. Check out their guide to poetry for poetry newbies here!
Essay: the newest production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is shocking but it’s not surprising
Maddy is an Australian musical theatre performer who’s shocked, but not surprised, about the atrocities in the production of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat that’s currently touring Australia. Read her full essay on the role of actors and institutions in it’s making here.
