430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
Cock immediately demands attention and begs for jokes that are too easy. Yes, this Cock satisfies and I’d go for the ride again. Now let’s move on. First seen in 2009, the …
Performer"composer"singer"writer Zulya Kamalova’s Evolution, Revolution and the Mail Order Bride is three stories about three women that explore how the suppression of the fem…
Red Stitch have opened the year with some of the best performances I’ve seen there. Out of the Water is by US writer Brook Berman. With parallels to The Odessy, with its journ…
Within a tiny white-washed room " reminiscent of a clinic " we are confronted with 'B,' a mysterious man approaching the age of 80, who discovers a story entitled The Madness of the Day i…
A melodrama about female identity, ownership and social hierarchy, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant lays bare the shallow passions and prejudices of an elite social circle. The play is a p…
Right before the beginning of The Great Game, two spinster sisters find themselves isolated in rural Australia, far from their homeland of England, and must deal with the inevitable plateau …
Standing on Ceremony: the gay marriage plays is an American series of nine short plays about marriage. No one coming along to see it needs convincing about marriage equality, which leaves…
Created and performed by Darren Vizer, No One Likes Me is about being different: growing up as a homosexual in a school system of intolerance, dealing with a family built on traditional gend…
Drawing from his fixation with the pop-music queen/goddess Madonna, performer and writer Wayne Tunks shares some of the messy, complex and joyous events of his past. Everything I know I lear…
Performance artist Tim Miller is from LA, he lived in New York for a while and spent some recent time at Monash Uni here in Melbourne. He’s been performing and writing since the ear…
There’s only four more chances to see The Worst of Scottee at Theatre Works this week. Please take one of those chances because it’s a show that lets you happily laugh alon…
Director Glenn Elston and the Australian Shakespeare Company have been performing in gardens all over the country since 1987. Their first production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream …
We're at the Abbotsfod Convent. It’s hot, it’s sticky and the thunder outside is rumbling in perfect time with the drama on stage. All in all, Third Reich Mommie couldn’t h…
The Greyhound Hotel is air conditioned, dark and has a huge bar with cold beer. And it’s easy to park. As Melbourne is sweltering in the 40s, there’s not much more you need to kn…
On the way to Big Bad Wolf, five-year-old Ella and I talked about what we thought it was going to be about. She thought there’d be huffing and puffing and little pigs, I thought the…
Thank you for being a friend is a loving tribute to the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls performed with puppets. If you’re already singing the theme song and getting your box set…
When I was 10, Grease was my word. I knew the film soundtrack album inside out before I saw the film (at the cinema), my school-friend group called ourselves the Pink Ladies and I still have…
Last year, 5 Pound Theatre transformed themselves into Australia’s only working repertory theatre for five weeks, when they presented five shows in five weeks with five actors and five…
On Monday night, Götterdämmerung, the final and longest opera of the Melbourne Ring Cycle opened. The cycle is complete and there are two more complete cycles to run. The full cycles ar…
Seigfried, the third in the Melbourne Ring Cycle of operas opened on Friday night as the Ring Festival continues around the city with tours, exhibitions and don’t forget the Bugs Bunny…
Opera Australia’s The Ring Cycle continues with Die Walküre opening in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Here’s the first look at some images. This is the one that welcomes th…
Back to Back Theatre are the superheroes of Melbourne theatre who leave us wanting to wear our undies on the outside, don a sexy cape and do something that leaves someone else feeling better…
After three years of preparation, on Monday night in Melbourne Opera Australia opened the biggest opera event seen in Australia with the Das Rheingold, the first of Wagner’s four-opera…
Last year, the Sisters Grimm put on a show in a backyard shed in Thornbury. They pushed the crap aside and brought in some op shop curtains and folding chairs. It was nigh on impossible to g…
If we were to choose the super hero of Melbourne theatre companies, Back to Back Theatre would have to get the cape and Lycra onsie as one of Australia's most globally known and respected co…
