Melbourne Reviews

Details: Lola MacMillan; 27 September 2007

The Government Inspector | Bell Shakespeare

Gogol’s The Government Inspector, as presented by Bell Shakespeare, is a performance tour-de-force.

Details: Nic Velissaris; 26 September 2007

It’s hard to believe that Jack Hibberd’s Australian classic White with Wire Wheels is 40 years old.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 25 September 2007

While, production-wise, the ballet is full-bodied, it’s technically uneven. The company has only recently finished their Destiny season and jumped straight into this sugary fairy land

Details: Anna Lozynski; 22 September 2007

The spiritual quality of this accomplished a cappella group illuminated the sombre subjects of its hymns and ballads

Details: Avi Lipski; 22 September 2007

In Crossing Live, screen writer/director Matt Saville and composer Bryony Marks have taken the fascinating inner machination of a current affairs studio and extracted music from all the noise and chaos

Details: Nic Velissaris; 21 September 2007

Hotel Obsino is about the underworld, not the classical Greek underworld of Tartarus, but the one that lives within our cities, hiding underneath the veneer of normalcy.

Details: Stephanie Glickman; 18 September 2007

The reality is that there a lot of world class jugglers, trapeze artists and handstand masters doing the circus rounds. To quote an old phrase, “You gotta have a gimmick.”

Details: Jessica Thomson; 17 September 2007

There is so much to like about this sprawling, innovative 'performance installation' from Stompin

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