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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 years ago

Midsumma: Technostalgia

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

9 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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 years ago

Reefer Madness

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

10 years ago