Rebellious Daughters – book review by Lisa Romeo

Edited by Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman. Published by Ventura Press.

Rebellious Daughters is a delightful read, composed of 17 true stories written by premium Australian female writers. The stories capture a period of time in the authors lives that reflects on the development of their characters, shaping and greatly influencing who they have become as adults today.
...

Winter Theatre presents a new Melbourne production of Edward Albee’s classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
...

What: Dirty Pictures

Where: La Mama Courthouse

When: 14th April to 24th April

Written and Directed by Tony Reck

Performed by Ange Arabatzis, Lucia Brancatisano, Willow Conway, Nick Stribakos

Sound Design by Hugo Race

Lighting Design by Matt Barber

Dirty Pictures is a bold depiction of a mix of the seedy, sleazy and penurious existence of individuals in our society – maybe it’s their chosen reality or maybe there was no choice. Through multimedia and silent acting, images are projected and communicated clearly and unflinchingly. Based in Melbourne, writer and director of Dirty Pictures Tony Reck has also worked as an actor, a playwright, a producer and a theatre critic since the early 1990s.

Reck writes that Dirty Pictures …”is a play about corruption. Corruption of the self; corruption of innocence; corruption of the body, and corruption within relationships occurring within...

What: Yeah Absolutely
Where: La Mama Theatre
When: 23^rd March to 27^th March
Written by: Anna McCarthy
Performed by Anna McCarthy and Jem Nicholas
Set and Costume Design: Romanie Harper
Lighting Design: Katie Sfetkidis
Sound Design: Daniel Nixon
Dramaturg: Lara Thoms
Outside Eyes: Stephen Nicolazzo and Lara Stevens

As part of the 30^th Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016 Yeah Absolutely is weird and wonderful, what I always expect to find at La Mama Theatre. Experimental in it’s approach it looks closely at the performance of self, both on stage and in every day life, provoking the audience with the exaggeration of mundane happenings and conversation through repetition and changes in mood. The stage resembles a Movie stars dressing room, fit for the feminine type, bright lights surround the mirrors and powder puffs, gloss, foundation and lipstick spread across the dresser in a well-used...