Melbourne Reviews
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- Vito Mattarelli
Melbourne's brand new music theatre company, The Collective, hurl themselves onto the local scene with a brave and challenging choice for their inaugural season – Parade.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Invitation to a Revolution is ‘Sir’ Rod’ Quantock’s return to Fringe after never becoming mainstream during (nearly) the last 20 years.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Comedy performer self-professed ‘oversharer’ Nicolette Minster has put together a show that wanders into the realm of objectum sexuals – people who fall in love with objects.
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- Liza Dezfouli
If you’ve got someone in your life who thinks they don’t ‘get’ Shakespeare, or someone who is yet to see a live performance, then take them to this.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The average life expectancy of a soprano is two and a half hours, so we learn in Death by Soprano.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Moulin Beige, comic and accordion player Liz Skitch’s monthly vaudeville show at the Wesley Ann in Northcote, is a delightfully entertaining taster of live comic performance, and a good way to find out what’s coming up in the Fringe or Comedy festivals.
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- Heather Bloom
The Sublime, the play is a topical piece of theatre that delves into the wildly controversial world of football players and the “hero-status” they are allowed.
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