Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Apr 26, 13 • Arts, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »
Diana Nguyen’s alter ego Kim Huong returns in the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show PhiL and Me. When Kim reveals all in her memoir Dragon Mum: How to control your wild teenage children, her son Phi runs away from home. Kim tries...
Jan 11, 13 • Reviews • 7 Comments »
The 2013 Academy Award nominations were announced today and among them was a Best Actress nomination for Naomi Watts’ performance in The Impossible. The film follows a family who find their Thailand holiday caught in the mayhem of the December...
Dec 12, 12 • Arts, Reviews • No Comments »
Very few classical Indian dancers consistently appear at the world’s top international arts festivals. Bangladesh-born UK dancer Akram Khan, is one of them. I was 18 when I first saw him dance. As an impressionable (and somewhat naive) student of...
Oct 28, 12 • Arts, Culture, Reviews • 1 Comment »
It’s a Sunday but Dad is still in his Jim’s Mowing greens. His pants have been reinforced around the knees with squares salvaged from old uniforms. What was formerly the colour of park benches and lush tropical foliage is now a mottled...
Oct 6, 12 • Reviews • No Comments »
Yumi Umiumare’s latest collaboration, DasSHOKU SHAKE! has renowned Theatre Gumbo, a selection of Osaka Butoh performers and local artists bring a sublime mix of social satire and edgy physicality to the Melbourne Fringe Festival. It is the fourth...
Oct 3, 12 • Arts, Reviews • No Comments »
Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal together with Ria Soemardjo have drawn on their Javanese heritage to create Opal Vapour. Being familiar with both their work, I anticipated a good show, however my expectations were surpassed by the sheer beauty of the...
Jun 9, 12 • Arts, Culture, Reviews • 1 Comment »
Martial arts moves, check. Hindu iconography, check. Desert at sunset, check. Gongs, drums, lanterns, and long-sleeved robes, check. The video for Coldplay and Rihanna’s recent collaboration is a hot mess of cultural appropriation. Check it...
May 10, 12 • Reviews • 3 Comments »
Candy B is back! Re-working material from last year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival performance of Australian Booty, Candy’s revamped Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix deserves a standing ovation. Candy B is a master of her craft and...
Apr 19, 12 • Reviews • No Comments »
We walked in about 5 minutes late to Jennifer Wong’s opening to Ouch and Other Words. Jennifer, however, didn’t miss a beat and welcomed us with “Oh, welcome, you’ve missed the best part of the show”, sparking a titter from the crowd in...
Jan 16, 12 • Culture, Reviews • No Comments »
I confess, I haven’t been much of a book reader since high school. In my university days, I became obsessed with music and so song lyrics occupied the literary niche in my brain. And after that I discovered that you could pretty much read...
