Melbourne Festival: An Enemy of the People

Melbourne Festival Diary #8 I woke the morning after seeing the Schaubühne Berlin's production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the Peo...

Melbourne Festival: The Minotaur Trilogy

Festival Diary #7 Chamber Made Opera's innovative series of Living Room Operas - small-scale opera performances commissioned as site-spe...

Melbourne Festival: An Act of Now, Weather, DESH

Melbourne Festival Diary #6 Even off the plan, the strongest aspect of the 2012 Melbourne Festival was always the dance. It's a feeling ...

Melbourne Festival: Holding Note

Melbourne Festival Diary #5 Holding note: Sometimes I find that all that emerges from my fingertips is a sludge of meh. This can particularl...

Melbourne Festival: Orlando

Melbourne Festival Diary #4 Some notes on Orlando White. No colour, every colour; plenty and absence at once. The empty page awaiting inscri...

Melbourne Festival: After Life

Melbourne Festival Diary #3 It may have only opened on Thursday, but the Melbourne Festival is now well into its stride. Aside from the Fors...

Melbourne Festival: Forsythe Dance Company, Force Majeure

Melbourne Festival Diary #2 I Don't Believe in Outer Space, Forsythe Dance Company; Never Did Me Any Harm, Force Majeure.   I used to sa...