Entertainment
Theatre
The Bleeding Tree: can a murder ever be beautiful?
When is doing wrong, doing right? This powerful play makes us question our views on domestic violence.
- by Karen Hardy
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Canberra life
The audience joins the actors on stage for this Patrick White story
In The Aspirations of Daise Morrow, the cast, the musicians and the audience are on a patch of grass under a canvas representing the sky.
- by Ron Cerabona
Canberra life
Blanc de Blanc is a bawdy bouquet of froth and bubble
The Spiegeltent show Blanc de Blanc isn't perfect but if it's a fun night out of revelry you're after this should fit the bill nicely.
- by Peter Wilkins
Carmen Live or Dead review: Carmen through the picture frame
A musical, hermaphrodite love-child of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky.
- by Reviewed by John Shand
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Performing arts
Sound and silence: Personal straddles autobiographical story
The only hearing member of a deaf family, Jodee Mundy is perfectly placed to open a door to the world of silence.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Still Point Turning: Catherine McGregor's gripping journey to the point of no return
Still Point Turning: The Catherine McGregor Story
- by Joyce Morgan
Arts
'If someone's had a great time, it's all you can ask'
Ensemble Theatres' Mark Kilmurry on why popular plays are "just as worthy as anything you think is influential".
- by Linda Morris
Peter Carey's Harry Joy reborn on stage: but has he really woken up to himself?
Exploring many of the issues playing out in society today, Peter Carey's award-winning 1981 novel was ripe for stage adaptation.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Parallel lives of courage
Catherine McGregor and Ayla Holdom's lives have unfolded on opposite sides of the planet with striking parallels.
- by Nick Galvin
Performing arts
Next stop Australia: Harry Potter play opens to rave reviews on Broadway
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has lithely leapt across its final hurdle before it makes its way to Australia in 2019.
- by Nathanael Cooper
The Effect review: Play about drug trial certainly a trial for audience
Lucy Prebble's play may contain a kernel of truth, but it was hard to spot in this production
- by John Shand