Melbourne Reviews

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 15 May 2008

Scarce Resources: Project Three | Melbourne Ballet Company

Melbourne Ballet Company are on their way to establishing a signature aesthetic as they continue to build on their strengths

Details: Melita Pereira; 12 May 2008

The Soldier's Tale | The Hayloft Project

Gunfire leads us in, pounding, intermittent and whizzing overhead. Suddenly there is a reverberating explosion, then the sound of the wind humming, and then the sight of the devil sitting comfortably in the middle of it all.

Details: Jan Chandler; 10 May 2008

Michelle Nicolle is Melbourne's Queen of Scat with a voice that can reach the high and the low, not to mention the in-between.

Details: Lola MacMillan; 10 May 2008

This is For You is a theatrical representation of the photographic work of Francesca Woodman. This piece opens a dialogue concerning the relative merits, or otherwise, of self-engrossed art and theatre.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 09 May 2008

The true story of the whaling ship ‘Catalpa’, and her astonishing captain George Anthony has been described as one of the most extraordinary prison escapes of all time

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 09 May 2008

GET A GRIP: L'art Du Deplacement | Trace Elements

The movement art of Parkour has been a European sensation for sometime and is only now getting notice in Melbourne.

Details: Jack Teiwes; 08 May 2008

The Future Australian Race | commonplace

It is a delight to see a new play of this quality on so fascinating a topic as this.

Details: Simon Piening; 07 May 2008

In 1870, Austrian novelist and teacher of history, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch published what was to become his most famous work, Venus in Furs.

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