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Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf, above Flinders Street Station
Have you ever thought about playing mini golf with a tail? No, I am not off with the pixies. Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf, a...
Alex First
3 hours ago2 min read


POV (re:group performance collective), at The Showroom, Arts Centre Melbourne - 70 minutes
POV (Point of View) is an extraordinary undertaking, unlike anything I have seen. A 14-year-old – played by alternates on different...
Alex First
3 hours ago3 min read


BLKDOG, at Arts Centre Melbourne, as part of the RISING festival - 1 hour 6 minutes
Life’s struggle from childhood is captured in captivating form in Botis Seva’s Olivier Award-winning dance theatre production BLKDOG. ...
Alex First
1 day ago2 min read


The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (MUST), at Monash University - 2 hours 20 minutes, including interval
If you think a musical about Greek gods is too much of a literary stretch and hardly relatable to the modern world, think again. The...
Alex First
2 days ago3 min read


Samson & Delilah (Melbourne Opera), at the Palais Theatre - 2 hours 20 minutes, including interval
A portent of doom hangs over Melbourne Opera’s production of Samson & Delilah. It is largely dark and foreboding (lighting design is by...
Alex First
4 days ago2 min read


Love and Information at Theatre Works - 105 minutes
My approach to reviewing is to enter a theatre, cinema or gallery knowing nothing about what I am about to see and hear. That means not...
Alex First
5 days ago2 min read


Ripening (Citizen Theatre), at Gasworks - 90 minutes, without interval
Who has the right to tell you how and when to give birth? Of course, it is a deeply personal issue, but one that, over generations, has...
Alex First
6 days ago3 min read


EL 47 - 110 minutes (centrepiece event of the Spanish Film Festival)
Based on truth, EL 47 is the story of an unlikely “revolutionary” who changed the face of Barcelona. His name is Manola Vital (Eduard...
Alex First
May 303 min read


Bring Her Back (MA) – 104 minutes
Talk to Me marked “them” as a pair to be watched. I speak of twins Danny and Michael Philippou for whom that supernatural horror marked...
Alex First
May 293 min read
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