Culture

Tasmania’s Mona Foma explores the possibilities of a decentralised festival, offering hope in the fractures of modern life.

For Natalia Kaliada, co-founder of Belarus Free Theatre, performance is about bringing audiences face-to-face with the real.

I try to remember her like that, coming home from the train tracks, full of love, of that orchid blue, but she always ends up in the hole. Her boss, those cops, telling this drunk woman that she didn’t work for the council anymore and she needed to move on, to hand in her uniform, her knowing she had nowhere to go, pulling soil over herself, saying, No. Don’t take this away. Bury me.

For playwright Lally Katz, David Lynch’s excavation of the strangeness of ordinary suburbia pointed the way to her own uncanny work.

The National Theatre’s All of Us is a powerful indictment of austerity but also shows the possibilities of inclusion.

Video Commission at Ngununggula in the Southern Highlands pairs eight artists in four inventive installations that centre video art.

For his penultimate Perth Festival, artistic director Iain Grandage continues his focus on local and First Nations culture with some thrilling international highlights.