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Now in its 24th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s annual celebration of all things cabaret sparkles and shines.
Robert Menzies is outstanding as a physically feeble yet emotionally volatile Lear.
Shelley Lasica was the first dance artist represented by an Australian commercial gallery. But how do you stage an exhibition on dance?
The work highlights that there may be no singular perspective on what is right and wrong in this rather complex and nuanced world.
Set in 1990s suburban Australia, The Exact Dimensions of Hell is a theatrical exploration that unflinchingly examines themes of teenage girls, desire and power.
The Sydney Theatre Company’s captivating revival of the 1975 play, co-produced with Dublin’s Gate Theatre, manages to balance the loathing and humour of Thomas Bernhard’s writing.
Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World at the Sydney Theatre Company is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
Eamon Flack’s production captures well – and with a lovely, light touch – the sense of fleeting memories that are, nevertheless, still available to us.
Playwright Nathan Maynard uses the story of Adam Goodes to explore race in a local footy club.
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in the History Program, La Trobe University; The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Arts, Flinders University
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Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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