I was lured into Griffin’s Stable Theatre to see the Australian premier of Dea
Loher’sTattooby the promise of a Grimm Brothersesque dark fairy tale ... I got more than I bargained for.
Jumping, after 4 solid years, from drum to piano stool, Fonseca has toured Italy with a pop-rock singer, traversed hip-hop and much other territory, to emerge at the forefront of modern jazz
It seems I wasn't the only one to consider that, pound-for-pound, the performance and technical standards of Short Sweet + Dance are higher than its dramatic parent.
You don't have to be gay to enjoy the story of 30-somethings, Taylor and Eden, about to celebrate their twelfth anniversary & a well-worn relationship with a commitment ceremony
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.
Following the unedifying edict that "there's a sucker born every minute", the show skewers the modern self-improvement economy in a piss-take parody of today's 'gurus' and snake-oil salesmen.