Off again

Yes, your indefatigable blogger is off to the States for the next month, to do some poetry readings and a couple of appearances as a Fantasy...

Test Pattern

Test Pattern by Angus Cerini, directed by Nadja Kostich. Lighting design by Richard Vabre, set & costume by Marg Horwell, sound design b...

MIAF: Good Samaritans / Berggasse 19

Alison's Festival Diary #6Good Samaritans, written and directed by Richard Maxwell, with Rosemary Allen and Kevin Hurley. New York City ...

Harold Pinter

Looking up briefly to belatedly acknowledge Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize. Onya, Harold! Theatre Notes has the deepest admiration for Pi...

MIAF: Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées)

Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées): Part One - Le Fleuve cruel (The Cruel River) and Part Two - Origines et Destins (Origins and Destinies)...

MIAF: Death and the Ploughman / La Clique

Alison's Festival Diary #4Death and the Ploughman by Johannes von Saaz, translated by Michael West. Directed by Anne Bogart, with Will B...

MIAF: The Odyssey

Alison's Festival Diary #3The Odyssey by Tom Wright, directed by Michael Kantor, designed by Anna Tregloan. With Paul Blackwell, Leon Ew...

MIAF: Songs of Exile

Alison's Festival Diary #2Songs of Exile, Diamanda Galas; Hamer Hall, Victorian Arts Centre. There's no question that Diamanda Galas...

MIAF Knob-Jockey Awards

Theatre Notes is proud to announce the MIAF Knob-Jockey Awards, for particularly stunning instances of critical philistinism during the Melb...

MIAF: Green / Small Metal Objects / Weyreap's Battle

Alison's Festival Diary #1It's feeding frenzy time for Melbourne culture vultures: yes, Theatre Notes has been donning her gladrags ...

Fringe: Material Mouth

Material Mouth, performed and devised by Carolyn Connors. Directed by Margaret Cameron, lighting by Gwendolyna Holmberg-Gilchrist. La Mama ...

Forumitis

On the train home from today's forum, I opened Giorgio Agamben's book of essays, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, to this seren...