Review: The Dollhouse

In the past few years, adaptations of classic plays have become more the norm than otherwise in Australian innovative theatre. Two directors...

A note about the Fringe

I will be seeing very little of the Fringe Festival this year. This is because Life is getting in the way. To wit: the edits for my novel Bl...

Australian Theatre Forum

The Australian Theatre Forum. Where to begin? For the past two days, I've been locked in a box with 260 theatre makers - performers, dir...

Review: Look Right Through Me

For four decades, Michael Leunig's savage and wistful universe has been one of the constants of Australian popular culture. His cartoons...

Review: Julius Caesar

NB: This review contains spoilers "Shakespeare," says Jan Kott, "is truer than life. One can play him only literally." I...

Review: Circle Mirror Transformation, It Sounds Silly, Interface

"Complaining," said Rilke, almost a century ago. "The eternal vice of poets." But consider the poet in the 21st century!...

Independent theatre

A quick heads up for tomorrow's Melbourne Writers Festival panel on independent theatre. I'll be chairing a discussion on our fertil...