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A grim truth is spun into a compelling and scathing new story
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Jason Donovan in The Rocky Horror Show, Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho, Vidya Rajan’s Crocodiles and more.
- by Cher Tan, Karl Quinn, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray, Cameron Woodhead, Tony Way and Jessica Nicholas
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Moth is the intense story of teenage misfits divided by a betrayal
This wrap of shows includes Moth at Theatre Works, a performance by Mallrat at the Forum, an eclectic collaboration, and a remarkable cabaret show by Paul Capsis.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen and Tony Way
The darkly prophetic play about a sector teetering on the edge
Crocodiles, by Vidya Rajan, was sparked by the storm she saw brewing in the aged care system.
- by Stephen A Russell
Ballet dancer who graduated during lockdown wins rising star award
Lilla Harvey, who has just won the $25,000 Telstra Rising Star Award, gives her top three tips for personal growth.
- by Chantal Nguyen
‘We don’t really know what we’re doing here’: The tradies who are the toast of design fair
Plumber Jack Fearon and his boilermaker brother Mark are still not quite sure how they ended up at the Melbourne Design Fair.
- by Cara Waters
Picture perfect? Take a peek inside Melbourne’s collective memory
Drawing on an extensive archive of photographs, this exhibition looks not only at the moments and stories that have been captured, but at the gaps in between.
- by Nadia Bailey
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The play that asks: what happens when love, politics and racism collide?
This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes I Wanna Be Yours, Wu-Tang Clan & Nas, The Necks, Loaded at Malthouse, Satyagraha in Concert, and Cavalcade.
- by Sonia Nair, Mahmood Fazal, Jessica Nicholas, Cher Tan, Barney Zwartz and Cameron Woodhead
The outlandish exhibition hidden inside abandoned silos
The Silo Project offers up the chance to admire an 85-year-old industrial ruin that’s as much a design marvel as those works it’s temporarily filled with.
- by Tomas Telegramma
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Film Festivals
‘It’s time to stand up to fearmongering and nonsense,’ says new queer film festival director
Cerise Howard has a strong vision for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, starting with more festivity – and asking some vital questions.
- by Stephen A Russell
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Opera Australia finally makes it to Melbourne – with controversial Miss Saigon musical
The company will bring the controversial musical Miss Saigon to Melbourne in October as its only staged production of the year.
- by Elizabeth Flux
How coloured pencils at the restaurant table shaped Australia’s new queen of kitsch
Ginger Taylor had always loved drawing – but it wasn’t until she fell into signwriting that everything kicked off.
- by Jenny Valentish