
The Melbourne Theatre Company’s latest production from acclaimed writer Annie Baker is an all too brief glimpse into the pain, the pleasure, the hope and the despair of what it is to be alive.

This is art personified, an experience through all the realms of emotion, and an epic display of talent.

The language was pleasant and resonated across the levels of the room, but the extended meaning seemed to have been placed elsewhere.

Playing his only gig in Melbourne, Maestro was a connoisseur of the turntable and it didn’t take long to get the kids dancing to the sexy and smooth beats of old-time jazz with a very contemporary edge.

Hosted by the charismatic Hadley Fibby, An Awful Lot of Vaudeville immediately takes you into its grasp and holds you captive as you try to decipher the madness that is the nine performers who make up the eclectic troupe.


Namatjira unfurls the life of watercolour artist, Albert Namatjira. Born as Elea, and renamed Albert by a Lutheran missionary, he was the first Aboriginal to be given Australian citizenship, highly regarded for his exquisite talent as an artist.