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Trap – movie review

Trap is the latest film from M Night Shyamalan and, like so much of his oeuvre, it’s driven by an…

It Ends With Us – movie review

Lily Bloom’s father has just died. Her mother Jenny wants her to eulogise him at his funeral, but she can’t.…

Horizon (Bangarra Dance Theatre) – dance review

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s world premiere work Horizon shines on the main stage as their first cross-cultural collaboration, and its national…

Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre) – theatre review

Watching characters on stage whose lives are steeped in suffering, sadness, loneliness, and despair can be one of life’s great…

La Rondine (Victorian Opera) – opera review

Can one truly escape one’s past? Can true love win out? These are questions posed in Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine…

Homosapien (Nightshift) – music review

Formed in Glasgow, Nightshift has been active for five years. The collective has experienced line-up changes and released two albums…

SIX (Comedy Theatre) – musical theatre review

SIX sizzles and girl power rules. It is a high-octane musical in every sense of those words. I speak of…

The Importance of Being Earnest (fortyfivedownstairs) – theatre review

This is a Wilde/wild night all right – oh so deliciously wacky, in fact. Bloomshed has taken the essence of…

The End and Everything Before It (Finegan Kruckemeyer) – book review

Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel The End and Everything Before It is a swirling, interconnected tale about a place…

50 Shades: The Musical Parody (Alex Theatre) – musical theatre review

When British author E.J. James released his erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey in 2011, it titillated an excited…