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‘Hurry. We must hurry.’ The jailer throws a cloak over Chidiock’s head, so now he looks like a limping girl, face hidden inside his hood. His weight falls into me as we make our way down the stairs. I think it must be God helping me get this far as I cannot surely do this on my own. It must be God helping me and Chidiock through the gate, God willing me on so I can help this broken man who is my son.

Based on the ancient epic poem, Gilgamesh – the first collaboration between Sydney Chamber Opera and Opera Australia – is fittingly ambitious.

Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new sitcom, English Teacher, picks up where Mike Judge’s 1990s series King of the Hill left off.

Two new works from some of Australia’s most acclaimed theatre artists interrogate in sharp and insightful ways the performance of gender and the damage it inflicts.

By the time dance music star Jamie xx had reached 30, he had burnt out. In Waves, his first album in a decade, shows he’s back.

He became more serene but as righteous as ever as he discharged information on blade maintenance. His overalls were neatly ironed. His face a polished brown. The rest of his body was pure white. A shock to see whenever he came out of the shower. The two-toned effect of him always catching us out. The smell of him too. A smell of lawnmower oil and grass. After the suggestion he stand for parliament, he took to combing his hair. A work in progress, thinning, so that you noticed the attention given to it.

Evan Ratliff’s podcast Shell Game is a comic but deeply unnerving investigation into the banal realities of AI.