Melbourne Reviews

Details: Paul Kooperman; 20 December 2008

The Needle And The Damage Done | Fiona Scott-Norman

The Needle and the Damage Done is a personal invitation to hear Fiona Scott-Norman’s view of the top ten of the worst records ever released in the history of the world.

Details: Vito Mattarelli; 19 December 2008

Is There Life after High School? | Stella Entertainment

Is There Life after High School? originally premiered on Broadway in 1982, when the world must have seemed a much simpler place.

Details: Anna Lozynski; 16 December 2008

Composed in a mere 24 days between 22 August and 14 September 1741, Messiah, A Sacred Oratorio surely qualifies as one of the 1001 classical compositions one must hear in their lifetime.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 13 December 2008

Shane always said his life was a soap opera – fame, fortune, failure, fidelity and forever battling the ferocious Australian media – perfect material for musical theatre.

Details: Jordan Vincent; 07 December 2008

Nutcracker: the Gift of a Dream | Australian Ballet School

The Australian Ballet School gives a fun, lively and kid-friendly rendition of this classical ballet, bringing the wintry-tale to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Details: Bron Batten; 06 December 2008

A lone, willowy figure, Kiara begins the performance by exploring her environment. Fragments of text and single words seem to indicate that Kiara is traversing an interior landscape, using visualisation to create movement vocabulary.

Details: Penelope Broadbent; 05 December 2008

This week the festival kicked off its eighth year with the presentation of Melbourne’s top twenty submissions.

Details: Paul Kooperman; 05 December 2008

These ‘students’ can flip, swing, hang, fly, trapeze, move and contort their bodies in ways you have never seen

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