While thousands have called for the show to be cancelled, Insatiable actually does a good job of depicting the complex nature of disordered eating, sexuality and female pleasure.
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Two new dance works allow the public to engage in a conversation around constitutional recognition and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
The central journey in Blasted is not a tourist trip through extreme violence. It’s the emotional journey of a bully who learns to be grateful for small acts of kindness.
Crazy Rich Asians is good for Asian-Americans but not great for Singaporean or broadly Asian politics.
In 1979, the American satellite Skylab crashed in Western Australia. A new play imagines what happened to an Aboriginal family nearby.
West of Sunshine takes place over a single day, following Jim, a courier of increasingly dangerous sorts, as he delivers packages across Melbourne.
In this grim and often bloody tale of dog-groomer Marcello, the canines steal every scene they are in.
A pared-down, humorous and intimate monologue, this production explores the human dimension of a political movement. It is a challenge to tacit silence and collective amnesia in Australia also.
Like a good pop ballad, I Used To Be Normal is energetic, colourful and masterfully anchored by a deep and earnest sentimentality.
Plagued by production woes for 25 years, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote embraces the spirit of its 17th-century source material. But unlike de Cervantes, Gilliam uses the female characters as props for the hero’s story.
The 2018 Tarrawarra Biennial explores the act of creation itself, dissolving boundaries between mind/body, physical/spiritual, and form/content. But the experience in the gallery is sometimes something of an anti-climax.
Bats have symbolised everything from insanity to good luck. A new book explores their place in our collective imagination.
In the Sydney Theatre Company’s premiere production, white guilt festers as part of the shame, the ongoing, percolating wound that is the plot-space of contemporary colonisation.
In La Boite’s premiere production, 19-year-old Lysa unleashes a one-woman protest inspired by recent women’s marches around the world.
Dead Lucky tackles issues around worker exploitation, gambling, international students and domestic violence. But it is let down by underdeveloped characters.
A successful adaption of Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia breathes new life and energy into its female characters.
The ABC’s reality TV show Everyone’s A Critic puts ‘everyday’ Australians in galleries. It is a compelling premise for an art show, but a tad disappointing.
Precarious, the latest offering from Circus Oz, centres around the tale of a missing seed. It is suitably staged in Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens.
Despite the beauty and novelty of the objects in the NMA’s new exhibition of Islamic art, the exhibition misses opportunities to make Islamic cultures comprehensible.
The author Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 18. A new film investigates the gender politics of the novel’s creation.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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