Culture

For broadcaster Marc Fennell, the cult hit Donnie Darko opened up the dark ambiguities of ordinary life.

The 2023 Ramsay Prize reveals a constellation of younger artists speaking with courage, intelligence and depth.

Belvoir’s Scenes from the Climate Era makes its audience complicit in the action on stage, giving the vast disaster of climate change a human scale.

There’s nothing at stake in Nicole Holofcener’s middle-class satire You Hurt My Feelings, which undermines its stellar cast.

Jada Alberts is a multi-talented artist whose work spans acting, writing, directing and visual art – and most recently a musical homage to Aretha Franklin.

The tour guide is the first to notice I’m unwell. He hands me a fresh water bottle from the cooler then folds himself back into the front passenger seat to watch. Condensation drips down the sides, leaving washed islands in the fine dust covering the van floor. The bottle has no label and easily crumples as I squeeze the plastic between my fingers; probably filled up from a local tap and resealed, like the travel blogs all warn. Still, I twist the cap off, not wanting to offend Prak, who has kind eyes and seems to be tracking the sweat beads rolling off my chin.

When multidisciplinary dancer Jacob Boehme read Sally Morgan’s iconic memoir My Place at 14, it showed him the freedom of seeking the truth.

Dennis Kelly’s solo play Girls & Boys relies on a simplistic framing of violence and misogyny that undermines a powerful performance.

The message of Luke George and Daniel Kok’s performance Hundreds + Thousands is lost in its assault on the audience.

Jordanian director Darin J. Sallam’s debut feature film, Farha, centres on the experiences of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl during the Naqba.