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The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race review: Spitting chips over a race for equality
It's not a level playing field. Whether it's wages, superannuation or seats at the cabinet table, women lose out.
- by Joyce Morgan
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Gold rush: Castlemaine flashes its arts pedigree
The opening weekend of Victoria's pre-eminent regional arts festival switched-on an impressive program from new artistic director Glyn Roberts.
- by Cameron Woodhead
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Arts
Circa's Peepshow is a coup for Castlemaine State Festival
Circa is one of the great success stories in Australia’s performing arts scene.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Osama Bin Laden: The human behind the monster
For the decade or so that Osama Bin Laden remained at large following the 2001 Twin Towers attacks, the terror leader grew in the collective imagination to become a near mythical monster.
- by Alix Foley
Gender politics, small towns and hot potatoes
As dramas go, you can't get more down-to-earth than the sexual politics of a potato race.
- by Steve Meacham
Review
A hilarious, excruciating look back at pre-teen competition
Dance Nation brings us a wild new voice in American theatre.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Review
MTC's production of Miller's A View From the Bridge as good as it gets
This stark tragedy of family violence and patriarchy forms a bridge all the way from Ancient Greece to #MeToo.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Russian Transport review: Through thick, thin and showers of sparks
Erika Sheffer's play depicts Russians behaving badly in Brooklyn.
- by John Shand
Grounded review: Emily Havea flies us to the heavens and to hell
George Brant's 2011 one-hander confronts war, love, death, gadgetry and empathy – all in 80 minutes!
- by John Shand
Every Brilliant Thing review: Kate Mulvany enlists audience
When a mother attempts suicide, her seven-year-old daughter makes a list of everything wonderful in life.
- by Joyce Morgan
Cirque du Soleil
'Anything is possible': Cirque du Soleil returns to Australia with new production
It was love at first sight when Nico Baixas saw his first Cirque du Soleil show in Barcelona in 2003.
- by Nick Galvin