DARWIN FESTIVAL FUNNIES By Will Crawford It’s August and the lure of Hanuman dinners and cool breezes at Festival Park is strong. The hypnotic call of the comedy sirens catch...
Joel Bray grew up as a queer, light-skinned Aboriginal in a country town and never felt like he quite fit in. By Tamara Howie Bray turned those feelings of displacement...
Canadian artist Anita Rochon is obsessed with the weather and a good challenge – so she created a show with a touring party of zero, finding local actors to perform...
The sports field meets the dance floor at Darwin Festival for Tracks Dance’s latest production. In Your Blood looks across generations, cultures and sporting codes to find what makes people...
It’s the story that gripped – and divided – the nation. By Tamara Howie An infant snatched by a dingo. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, trialled by the media and jailed...
A show described as “storytelling through performance art, spoken word, documentary, cabaret and neo-burlesque vignettes” is a little difficult to imagine, but that’s what Nel Da Silva is bringing to...
From a young emerging hip-hop artist to a seniors dance troupe, Tracks Dance Company is staging a diverse show at the Darwin Fringe Festival. By Kylie Stevenson Now in its...
Audiences will be transported from a darkened Darwin theatre to Dublin’s underbelly in an intimate one-man monologue that explores the fringes of society. By Kylie Stevenson Award-winning playwright and actor...
You might think a person who once spent 18 hours on trains to get to an acting class would be sick of them, but writer and actor Tremayne Gordon has...
Corrugated Iron’s contribution to this year’s Fringe Festival will be a bit of a juggling act, with the Top End youth arts organisation staging two very different shows. Corrosion sets...
The Darwin Fringe Festival is upon us and, for the comedy connoisseur, a comic smorgasbord awaits. By Will Crawford My salivary glands are working overtime in readiness for the taster...
The Duprada Dance Company is bringing Top End and Centralian dancers together for a one-off performance of Don Quixote in Darwin. It’s the first time since 2014 that the dancers...
During WWI top end soldiers were forced to travel interstate to enlist – but they didn’t leave town without a party to say farewell. By Tamara Howie In those days...
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Sydney Dance Company's latest production explores the depth of human impulse in ab [intra]. In the initial development, ab [intra] , which means ‘from within’ in Latin, began with a...
Artists played a pivotal role in WWI by showing the true horror of the front lines to the world. The words of poets who fought in The Great War will...
Kids in katherine will be swept away on a magical floating island with a toothless crocodile, a happy shark and a lovable teddy bear in the musical comedy A Teddy...
This month, I am lucky to be joined By Aaron Signal aka Mon Cherie to talk about the recent rejuvenation of the monthly Fab U Lash series of drag-inspired comedy...
As temperatures rise beyond 40 degree and Melbourne’s sewerage system floods the city, the characters in The Turquoise Elephant are all still bickering about climate change. By Tamara Howie Set...
Love triangles, mischief and a spot of cross-dressing – all the elements of a classic Shakespeare comedy will be on show in Essential Theatre’s rendition of Twelfth Night. The Australian...
The Mechanics of Comedy – Part 4. Having previously explored various subgenres of comedy including Misanthropes, Character Assassins and Surrealists, I cast my eyes to the ever-popular comedy movement, the...