Welcome to the world of sleaze, pretty baby We’ve got everything you need You’ll fit in, it’s such a breeze, pretty baby Happy living on your knees. – World of Sleaze, Regurgitator One of the most important lessons I learned

Children’s rhymes, when sung at just the right tempo, with just the right lilting, listless tone, have a tendency to become slightly unnerving. There is something disquieting about the strange familiarity of the world a child inhabits; about their propensity

Death, it is commonly acknowledged, has always been a bit of a taboo in Western culture. We tend to avoid thinking about it, talking about it, and, wherever possible, experiencing it. We gloss over it with language, making every attempt

Earlier this year, Sam Strong’s production of Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes, which opened the new fortyfivedownstairs, not with a bang, but a whimper, proved that the playwright could survive even the most clumsy and uncomprehending of treatments. The play’s

Wild East is a play that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be: a nuanced comedy about corporate culture, a chamber drama about personal betrayal, or a riotous, slapdash cartoon. A better play would have been all three at

In more sense than one, Hélène Cixous’ The Perjured City Or, The Awakening of the Furies has history pulsing through its veins. On the one hand, it takes an event from the recent past – the administration of contaminated blood

The days are getting shorter, the nights colder, and the air has that refreshing crispness about it that accompanies the onset of winter. Melbourne’s punters, for the first time in months, are rugging up to go out to the theatre.

In its more compelling moments, Theatre @ Risk’s Checklist for an Armed Robber is a play of composite images. Based on two newspaper stories from a couple of years back, the events of which unfolded over the same weekend on