Culture

The Melbourne Theatre Company’s SLAP. BANG. KISS. is a step behind the radical generation it is speaking to.

Caryl Churchill’s radical dramatic language captures the complexities of moments rich with change.

Filipino–Australian photographer James J. Robinson empowers his subjects – whether celebrated or unknown – with an aesthetic of excess.

There comes a moment when they both fall silent as her daughter takes a long shuddering breath, and that’s when the memory drops into Caro’s consciousness, perfect as a drop of water off a stalactite. Down it smashes, tiny but insistent, into a little pool of something calcified and secret. ‘I got stung by a wasp when I was about four years old,’ she says to her daughter. ‘It really hurts, doesn’t it?’

The Australian Ballet’s artistic director, David Hallberg, says French choreographer Jérôme Bel opened his eyes – and broke his heart.

Through the second year of the pandemic, watching big films on the small screen became ever lonelier.

As one of the simplest Covid-era music funding models, Flash Forward has produced some of the year’s best work.

Streaming puts hundreds of thousands of hours of television at our fingertips – but how do we choose what to watch?

Opera, says Barrie Kosky, is all about bringing the dead back to life – as will be seen in his Adelaide Festival production of The Golden Cockerel.

When Federico wakes up, the sun is beginning to make its descent towards the horizon. He looks at his watch. It is 5 o’clock. Amore, how could I have slept for so long? He looks across and sees Gina sitting on the bench. In the late afternoon light, she is radiant in her floral dress and hat. Gina? Is this really you?