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Betroffenheit: an exploration of the suffering that is part of life. Shane Reid

Betroffenheit, when the mind and body get stuck

William Peterson, Flinders University

Canadian artists Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young take the audience on a searing journey through the emotionally stunted landscape of a grieving father.
Saul at the Adelaide Festival: the early scenes feel like hallucinatory dreamscapes unanchored in space. Tony Lewis

Barrie Kosky’s Saul: a masterpiece of operatic staging

John Severn, Macquarie University

With its themes of family dysfunction, love, death, madness and the supernatural, this Old Testament story is ready-made for opera.
Cate Blanchett disappears into her role as the Mother in RED: sweating and furious with the fundamental compulsion to mate. © del kathryn barton

Sex, death and del kathryn barton

Heather L. Robinson, Flinders University

Cate Blanchett howls and contorts in RED, del kathryn barton’s ferocious exploration of female power.

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