Anne-Marie Peard

Review: The Red Detachment of Women

Can’t afford your own time machine? A ticket to the National Ballet of China’s Red Detachment of Women is the…

7 years ago

Malthouse: Little Emperors

Little Emperors was commissioned and developed by Malthouse Theatre for the Asia TOPA festival. Australian writer Lachlan Philpott (The Trouble…

7 years ago

Victorian Opera: ‘Tis Pity

The 2015 Victorian Opera production of Die Sieben Todsunden with Meow Meow took me as close to seeing how Brecht and Weil…

7 years ago

The Book of Mormon will blow your freaking mind

Oh, I believe! The expectations of the Australian production of The Book of Mormon were higher than a stoner watching…

7 years ago

Midsumma: Technostalgia

It really is astonishing to realise how much has changed in technology ­– phones, computers, the way we listen to…

7 years ago

Midsumma: The Happy Prince

I remember reading Oscar Wilde’s fairytale The Happy Prince when I was young, and I remember its beauty and sadness…

7 years ago

Midsumma: I am my own wife

Doug Wright’s play I Am My Own Wife, at fortyfivedownstairs for Midsumma, is a most remarkable piece. Its story twists…

7 years ago

Midsumma: Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks

I’m not going to beat around the bush. Dolly Di*mond's Bl*nkety Bl*nks is a hot mess – but it’s the…

7 years ago

Reefer Madness

Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane are in high school and in love and in danger of falling under the thrall…

7 years ago