Fringe Theatre goes on the treadmill in Burnout Paradise while other shows offer high octane dance/theatre fusion, AI monsters and invitations into strangers’ loungerooms
Reviews of The Hotline, an on-demand pregnancy hotline, Poet No.7, a post-apocalyptic Melbourne and Zaffé, a reimagining of a traditional Lebanese wedding at Melbourne Fringe 2023.
Callouts for 2024 exhibition programming, composer-in-residence program, plus winners of Brisbane Portrait Prize, finalists for emerging playwright commission and more.
Ayman Kaake, the Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Winner 2022, is coming to Midsumma with a new solo show, ’99 Names’. 99 Names is a collection of photographs and video installation that unapologetically call out the double standard of society that we live in. Homosexuality is still a crime in at least 74 countries, and 13 of those impose death by public stoning as a penalty, this show is a testament to the hypocrisy of religion and politics and the acts of atrocity that they condone.
Wayne Quilliam’s Silent Strength, a photograph of Aurukun man Eric Yunkaporta, has won the 2022 national photographic portrait prize. Quilliam says the capture of Yunkaporta in ceremonial headwear is akin to a trickle of water merging into a small stream, then into the ocean.
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