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Einstein on the Beach (State Theatre, Melbourne, 1992) 31 Jul 2013 | 11:47 am
Here’s one I prepared earlier... like, 21 years earlier. Since its premiere at the Avignon Festival and subsequent six-nation tour, Einstein on the Beach has been revived just once, for a brief New Y...
Flashes forward and back: Under the Dome (Ten Network) 27 Jun 2013 | 08:44 am
What’s to stop Channel Ten’s Under the Dome from turning into another FlashForward, the “high concept” sci-fi series axed after just the one 22-episode series... at a critical point in the story? Wil...
Dance Massive: random rants #1 19 Mar 2013 | 10:34 pm
Thirteen shows in eight days. My favourites so far... Black Project 2. Rampant, scintillating, precise, alien. You know, just Antony Hamilton at his awesome best. I would have very happily shelled ou...
Generations: Zero Zero and The Recording 15 Mar 2013 | 10:39 am
Thanks to Zero Zero, the most recent and arguably the finest collaboration between Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare to date, generations have been on my mind. Umiumare first came to Melbourne with Butoh com...
Dance Massive: Physical Fractals by Natalie Abbott 14 Mar 2013 | 06:30 pm
I’m always torn when it comes to seasons like Pieces for Small Spaces and, more recently, the First Run program -- both Lucy Guerin initiatives -- after which comments and feedback are invited. Don’t ...
Dance Massive: P.O.V. by Lee Serle 13 Mar 2013 | 09:06 am
Tis the era of the coda, the recapitulation, of book-ending. It was kinda cool when the era began. But now, you know, it’s become all too predictable. So, when you see a show that has a trajectory, a ...
Malthouse Theatre: Hate by Stephen Sewell 28 Feb 2013 | 09:04 am
“Although the dialogue of this play may appear in some respects naturalistic, the production should never make the mistake of setting it naturalistally.” So writes Stephen Sewell in the Currency Pres...
You always remember the first time... 22 Feb 2013 | 03:30 am
I used to bemoan the fact that the people we critics write for, i.e. you, think about what we have written for about as long as it takes to read it. Perhaps you’re wondering if a show is worth 99 buck...
Robin Grove 2 Jan 2013 | 11:52 am
I learned yesterday afternoon of the death of Robin Grove, a much loved teacher and scholar. He was also a dancer, in his day, and something of a composer. Years before I met the man and his equally g...
The Artisan Collective: If it bleeds by Brendan McCallum 18 Oct 2012 | 11:35 pm
It’s worth trying to conjure up the scenario in your mind. A morning TV show on a local channel in a small coastal town in Florida. The show, Suncoast Digest, is devoted to local news. Not trivia exac...
