Culture

I walked on to the square, the quieter side where old women sat on a bench feeding crumbs to ratty pigeons near a drunk with his trousers loosened off to the show the crack of his arse and a floppy face through which alcohol had been expressed.

The first full-length collaboration between Bangarra Dance Theatre and The Australian Ballet, Flora melds groundedness and authenticity with classical technique.

New albums from avant-garde pop artists Fcukers and Slayyyter aggressively embrace hedonism in a world of emotional dysregulation and assaulting news.

Actor Paula Arundell channels her childhood experiences of isolation in a new Belvoir Street role exploring women’s fury over crisis in the animal world.

Bell Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar eschews crude political parallels to focus on the rhetorical dynamics of our era.