
The four new works that comprise the 2015 season of New Breed – presented by Sydney Dance Company and Carriageworks – each have a distinctive style, ranging from poetic to whimsical and dramatic.

Yes, this is Ancien régime stuff. It's frivolous, frothy, and fun. It gives a remarkable insight into a tiny aspect of life in late 18th century France. It's amazingly well performed. And you won't get another opportunity to see it for a long time, so go.

Rush presents a fine madness, losing his mind, his bearings and his pants, and Nevin plays a nifty fool, a cocky bantam of a bloke, looking and sounding like a country race meet bookie.

This 21st anniversary production of Ochres still retains the magical quality that affected audiences so powerfully all those years ago.

Hopefully, time is on your side to get caught in the crossfire hurricane of A Riff on Keef: The Human Myth, Benito Di Fonzo’s loose swinging jam on the now venerable wild man of rock, Keith Richards.

Overall this is a unique and fascinating show, and director Jay James Moody shows a skillful knowledge of the material and a deft hand with character.

Dinkum Assorted has so much energy. Energy that comes from the characters. The desperate energy of survival, the joyful energy of youth, the determined energy of women who are fighting together to maintain a life that is worth living.