In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Live Performance Review - Oscar
This full-length ballet captures the essence of Oscar Wilde’s complex world with a composition of grandeur, elegance, and emotional depth.
Live Performance Review - I hope this means something
I hope this means something brilliantly captures the perils of isolation and the turbulence that can accompany bereavement, concurrently conveying the impact of the pressing need for action amidst despair.
Live Performance Review - A Streetcar Named Desire
This rendition of A Streetcar Named Desire —one of my all-time favourites— was truly a masterpiece.
Live Performance Review - Ghosts
If you’re into complex sinners, the inverse of the hot priest from Fleabag, provocative theatre, and social hypocrisy, then Ghosts is the play for you.
Live Performance Review - Muthering Heights
Muthering Heights is a low-budget production with big ideas. It was certainly a unique opportunity to watch a fictionalised documentary about my own family played out on the stage of the Butterfly Club downstairs.
Live Performance Review - SLUTNIK™ 2: Planet of the Incels
Normally I wouldn’t enjoy watching Incels for 100 minutes but SLUTNIK™ 2: Planet of the Incels was truly a pleasure to attend.
Live Performance Review - Devastating Beauty
Christopher Fieldus aka the drag chanteuse Ms CeCe Rockefeller rounds off the end of this year’s ever-growing Melbourne Midsummer Festival with their cabaretica Devastating Beauty.
Live Performance Review - Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical
Once upon a time in Hawkins, Indiana, there lived a people chuffed with cliché. Their lives were a hit and their town never missed, what an unpleasant mess they’ve now found themselves in.
Live Performance Review - How Long is a Piece of String?
Before I knew it, I’d had a golden string tied around my wrist and I was sitting in a lecture, discerning the physics behind string theory. ‘Ah, a comedy science show’, I thought, ‘how quaint.’
Life Performance Review - Juniper Rising
She rose, she slayed, she conquered, but most importantly, she girlbossed.
Live Performance Review - Girls with Altitude by Flying Fruit Fly Circus
The Melbourne Arts Centre hosted an evening of delight as a 17-strong troop of up-and-coming starlets cracked wise and levitated before our eyes in spectacular fashion in Girls With Attitude.
Live Performance Review - Freaky Friday
What I was expecting from this night out at the theatre, was high energy, excitement, tenderness and maybe a few good one-liners. I can happily say, that’s exactly what I got.
Live Event Review - Radar ‘Ease My Mind’ Single Launch
Keep an eye on these bands, especially Radar’s new material, because it’s not the last time you’ll see their names in Melbourne.
Live Performance Review - The Marvellous Life of Carlo Gatti
Gripping through its lack of elaboration and enhanced by its creative solutions to keep the show afloat and on track, this one is great for a night of new experiences and audience participation.
Live Performance Review - My Self in That Moment by Chamber Made
This performance was something wholly unique, and beyond what can be provided in a cinema or on a streaming service.
Live Performance Review - YUMMY by ICONIC
The engine that is entirely driving this show is simply the desire to show off one’s most true self. It just so happens that this radical act of vulnerability is also set against an iconic Britney mega-mix. Run, don’t walk.
Live Performance Review - CLUB NITE
CLUB NITE showcases a night out where the three friends, a straight girl, a drug-dealing pansexual and a Berlin-loving bisexual, who all want to attend three separate well-known Melbourne hotspots - Yah Yahs, a house party, and a rave at Yarra bend.
Live Performance Review: Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria is a story of untreated grief and trauma, and the attempts we continually make to ‘place’ these feelings within ourselves.
Live Performance Review: SLUTNIK™
Award-winning playwright Flick’s debut full-length play SLUTNIK™ explores a group of lesbian space cannibals, and if that three-word description doesn’t sell this play, I don’t know what will.
Live Performance Review: The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
JESUS lived, Jesus Died, and Jesus has been resurrected again at Theatreworks. Not in a typical patriarchal way but a completely reimagined production with Jesus represented and played by a transgender woman.