Reviews

As an avant-garde and experimental Japanese theatre tradition, Butoh exhibits a great deal of post-war and postmodern dystopian anxieties. ButohBAR visits some very dark psychological places and spaces and this is where the anti-aesthetics is particularly at work in this production. The stage, set and costume design deliver the characteristic anguish of this radically challenging form of theatre. The clash of colours, styles, movement and textures is striking and sometimes jarring.

Musica Viva Australia are to be commended for importing artists of the calibre of violinist Noa Wildschut and pianist Elisabeth Brauss. Direct from the concert halls of Europe, they present a program, Wildschut & Brauss that has something for everyone, young or old, a music buff or a novice.

Jonathan Biggins and Drew Forsythe are looking back on another year with their usual perspicacious percipience, pertinent parodies and just a little poignant plaintiveness! They satirise prominent politicians with punchy pride, bi-partisan prejudice and intense irreverent irony. And if you find that little lot of alliteration laborious imagine writing a whole sketch of it! In fact, imagine planning a program of sketches satirising people and politics – and performing them perfectly!  

Ok! Ok! I’ll stop!

The Metaverse of Magic is an extraordinary experience that seamlessly blends illusion, spectacle, and storytelling along with interactive audience gameplay. 

Brought to life by a remarkable cast of performers, it is fronted by Lenox (Ash Hodgkinson, AKA Ash Magic), who leads the audience into the mystical Metaverse. Along with his AI sidekick Digi (Erin Bruce), both he and the audience must complete a series of tasks to level up in a magical playground.