Anne-Marie Peard

It’s not about lions

As Red Stitch's The Pride opens with a Phillip Glass string quartet and two sharply-dressed men staring at each other across a…

14 years ago

Farewell Possums!

I have to let go one of my ongoing theatre dreams. For years, I've fantasised about being picked on by…

14 years ago

Lorca would love this Wedding

I wonder what Federico García Lorca would think about Blood Wedding being performed in Australia 80 years after he wrote it. His…

14 years ago

I love that theatre like this exists

Lesbian vampires. Do I need to say more? Lesbian vampires in North Fitzroy. A play with lesbian vampires, set in…

14 years ago

A Quick Chat With Xavier O’Shannessy at La Mama

"I see their faces. They don’t care if ya surf. They don’t care if ya work with them. To them,…

14 years ago

A Lear like no other

Queen Lear was always going to be a bitch to review. Men and women are different beasts who adore and loathe…

14 years ago

Almost with us

Almost With You opens with music from The Clash and a 40-something-chick having to change her sex position because her knees…

14 years ago

Dance at its most compelling

Briwyant begins with the sound of a story wanting to be told.  As it searches for the Dreaming in an urban…

14 years ago

This is why we go to theatre

sex.violence.blood.gore is all flushed-flesh pink and delicate ivory lace, which makes it even sexier and gorier and gorgeous. First performed in…

14 years ago