Culture

I hate these jobs. The airport’s half an hour away, and traffic’s heavy. No doubt this woman would rather be alone. I wish I had that luxury too, but I’m in the wrong job. I should be eating dinner with my wife, talking about this flatness that keeps me in bed longer. But I’m here, in the dark, with a stranger who needs to be someplace else. The traffic moves and I nudge forward. A red light stops us again.

The Pram Factory – home of the radical 1970s theatre collective the Australian Performing Group – taught Evelyn Krape she had a voice.

Groundbreaking American video and performance artist Joan Jonas – on show for the first time in Australia at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts – prompts us to reconsider our perspectives.

In this first full program under new director Ruth Mackenzie, the Adelaide Festival delivers the range and depth of works to thrill its audiences, and its newest offerings are clear highlights.

Outsider French director Catherine Breillat’s acclaimed film Last Summer – her first feature in a decade – explores the human capacity for self-deception.

Maxine Beneba Clarke’s bestselling memoir The Hate Race is brilliantly translated to the stage at Malthouse Theatre.

William Blake’s radical spirituality – his insistence on seeing the world, rather than merely looking at it – is foundational for artist Fiona Hall.