Anne-Marie Peard

Anne-Marie spent many years working with amazing artists at arts festivals all over Australia. She's been a freelance arts writer for the last 10 years and teaches journalism at Monash University.

StageArt: Spring Awakening

Melbourne’s had the opportunity to see two adaptions of Frank Wedekind's 1891 play Spring Awakening this month. StageArt’s production of…

7 years ago

My Fair Lady, Melbourne

"Words, words, words! I'm so sick of words I get words all day through." This was always my favourite song…

7 years ago

Cabaret, Melbourne season

David M Hawkins's production of Cabaret may be as pretty as Sally Bowles's green nail polish, but the only person…

7 years ago

Bell Shakespeare: Richard 3

Being in the depths of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I was calling Richard 3, by Bell Shakespeare, Chick Dick…

7 years ago

Trainspotting Live

I was splashed by a wet condom and had a shite covered naked arse within touching distance. Choose life. Choose theatre.…

7 years ago

MTC: Faith Healer

Faith Healer, directed by Judy Davis, at Sydney’s Belvoir last year was so successful that the MTC put it into…

7 years ago

The play that goes so wrong that it’s right

The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society present The Murder at Haversham Manor. It goes wrong. Very wrong. So wrong that it's totally right.…

7 years ago

La Mama: The Fever

In a hotel room in a third-world country, an unnamed person recounts a story of the fever he suffers from…

7 years ago

MTC: John

American playwright Annie Baker won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for The Flick (seen at Red Stitch) when she was 33. Her writing's…

7 years ago