
Prayer chimes, incense and ‘buff’ monks take to the stage, glittering with red elephants and stylised Siamese dancers. Welcome to the 2014 Australian Premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I and prepare to be blown away...

Better run, run as fast as you can to catch Sam Simmons’ Death of a Sails-man before it leaves Brisbane’s waterways.

As Not Seen on TV is Berner like you’ve truly never seen him before, he’s letting it all out unfettered by the censorship rules of TV land.

Love-Song-Circus is the deeply touching, aurally and visually gorgeous sharing of some of the struggles endured by the first female convicts who were sent to Australia.

What’s compelling about the work is watching three world-class creatives interact with such precision, invention and, frankly, joy.

In one monologue, in particular, I felt as if Dalisa Pigram had buried something very sharp inside my chest and was, quite coldly and deliberately, twisting it to inflict further trauma.

While driven by some commendably staggering performances from Iaheto Ah Hi and Taokia Pelesasa, it’s actually an incredibly shallow, unfocused work.