Review: King Lear

King Lear by William Shakespeare, directed by Brian Lipson. Set design by Noami Wong, costumes by Jessica Daly, lighting design by Tom Willi...

STC saga #354

Boy, they like a good feeding frenzy up in Sydney. Nicholas Pickard is doing a good job of logging the controversy. Meanwhile, the latest ST...

The issue of "issues"

A bonus for all you happy readers: Victoria Chance from Currency Press has a special offer to TN readers: if you order Power Plays online be...

Mopping the blood

So much for bloggers being scummy scandal-mongers only interested in drawing blood. In Sydney, Nicholas Pickard is scornful of the Fairfax s...

MIAF: The wrap-up

In today's papers, the 2007 Melbourne Festival is annointed as a brilliant success. Kristy Edmunds' faith that Melbourne audiences c...

Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Melbourne Festival #12Programs A and B, Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Choreography by Merce Cunningham, musical direction by Takehisa Kasu...

Review: Glow

Melbourne Festival #11Glow, conceived and choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek. Concept and interactive design system by Frieder Weiß. Original...

Moody Moody

...while we're on the subject of State theatre companies, actor Colin Moody is in the Age today tearing strips off the STC. Moody's ...

Miscellany

I know that the Melbourne Festival has been the epicentre of the universe lately, but a couple of things have banked up while I've been...

Review: European House

Melbourne Festival #10European House, conceived and directed by Alex Rigola. Design by Sebastià Brosa, Bibiana Puigdefàbregas, lighting desi...

Me in the Guardian

Little Alison today makes her debut on the Guardian theatre blog page, with a short piece on the Melbourne Festival. Which is nice.

Review: Titus

Melbourne Festival #9Titus, after William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Created by Kuno Bakker, Manja Topper, Oscar van Woensel, Gillis Bi...

Along the grape vine...

...the word is that MTC associate director Julian Meyrick has resigned. And, according to several sources, he's resigned not in sorrow b...

Review: Hunger

Melbourne Festival #8Hunger, devised and created by rawcus and musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kate Sulan. Desi...

Review: Meow Meow

Melbourne Festival #7Meow Meow: Beyond Beyond Glamour: The Remix. Meow Meow with Paul Grabowsky on piano. The Famous Spiegeltent.“What does ...

Review: Homeland/Kagemi

Melbourne Festival #6Homeland by Laurie Anderson. Laurie Anderson with Eyvind Kang, Jamshied Sharifi and Skuli Sverrisson. Hamer Hall until ...

Review: The Show Must Go On

Melbourne Festival #5The Show Must Go On by Jérôme Bel. Playhouse Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, until October 18. Bookings: 1300 136 166If...

Review: Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/medEia

Melbourne Festival #4Sizwe Banzi Is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, directed by Peter Brook. Adapted into French by Mar...

Review: C-90/This Show Is About People

Melbourne Festival #3C-90, written directed and performed by Daniel Kitson. Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre, until October 27. Booking...

Review: Half Life

Melbourne Festival #2Half Life by John Mighton, directed by Daniel Brooks. Design by Dany Lyne, lighting by Andrea Lundy. With Richard Clark...

Review: The Temptation of St Anthony/The Tell-Tale Heart

Melbourne International Arts Festival #1 The Temptation of St Anthony, from the novel by Gustave Flaubert. Direction, set design and lightin...

File this one under "petty"

You all know that my worser self takes over now and again. I'm afraid I had a day like that yesterday. Oh, I could just slap myself.Andr...

Culture vulturing

This beak is not just a prosthetic: over the next few weeks, Ms Alison will be plunging her wits - or what's left of them, anyway - into...

La Mama funding

News just in: after some nervous waiting, La Mama Theatre tonight announced that it has had its funding confirmed for 2008. Not only that, t...

Review: The Homecoming

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, directed by Duncan Graham. Designed by Sarah John, lighting design by Nic Mollison, sound design by Andrew ...

Return of the prodigal blogger

George Hunka is back at a smart new site, a new play in his pocket, after a meditative few weeks hanging out Montauk with burbling nature (a...

Review: Cake / Kin

Fringe Festival: Cake by Astrid Pill, directed by Ingrid Voorendt. Designed by Gaelle Mallis, lighting design by Geoff Cobham, composition b...

Reprise: Know No Cure

Apropos of a discussion of Adam Broinwoski's Know No Cure in the review and comments of Hotel Obsino, Age writer Maher Mughrabi sent me ...

Meanwhile in England...

They're still dancing the ol' blogger-print tango. This time it's Rónán McDonald, who has written the latest in a series of book...

Woolf x Three

So here's why I've been flying along the Australian coastline like a confused fruitbat. From today's Australian, your peripateti...

How Alison Flubbed the Fringe

I just couldn't manage the Fringe. Here's why, with a potted summary of my week so far. Thursday and Friday: two openings, with an i...