Reviews
This is the complete list of all the reviews written or linked to on GS, sorted by date.
- Published in 2015/2016 16 March, 2016
- Some overdue house-keeping 5 November, 2015
- The Conversation: Sex, rape and role models – how women in comedy perform 17 April, 2014
- Review: Daniel Schlusser Ensemble: M+M (way overdue) 15 April, 2014
- RW: Hofesh Shechter: Sun (way overdue) 14 April, 2014
- Adelaide Festival (somewhat overdue) 14 April, 2014
- (Not Quite) RW: The Worst of Scottee / Theatreworks, Midsumma 22 January, 2014
- (brief) RW: Dance of Death 4 May, 2013
- Dance Massive 05: More or Less Monstrous (reviewed: Atlanta Eke’s Monster Body) 3 April, 2013
- Dance Massive 03: The Body Un-Mirrored (reviewed: Chunky Move’s 247 Days) 3 April, 2013
- Dance Massive 02: inside the audience (reviewed: Lee Serle’s P.O.V.) 3 April, 2013
- Dance Massive 04: The Creation of an Affective Community (reviewed: Matthew Day’s Intermission) 2 April, 2013
- Dance Massive 01: suggestive formalism (reviewed: Natalie Abbott’s Physical Fractals) 2 April, 2013
- Schaubühne: The Enemy of the People (not quite a review) 10 October, 2012
- theatre at the limits (reviewed: Theatertreffen 2012, namely: John Gabriel Borkman) 8 September, 2012
- filmic, theatrical polyphony (reviewed: Katie Mitchell’s Fräulein Julie for the Schaubühne, Berlin) 8 September, 2012
- minus signs (reviewed: Artshouse season 01/2010: works by Rotozaza; Mem Morrison Company; Helen Cole; Acrobat; Scattered Tacks) 6 February, 2012
- The pre-cognitive alternative (reviewed: Les Ballets C de la B’s Out of Context – For Pina; Needcompany’s The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny) 6 February, 2012
- shopping for experience (reviewed: a whole bunch of relational/immersive/participatory theatre, including London’s LIFT and BAC’s One-on-One Festival; Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven) 6 February, 2012
- unheroic love (reviewed: Stephanie Lake’s Mix Tape) 6 February, 2012
- On the dyingness of things (reviewed: MIAF 2010: Stifters Dinge; David Chesworth’s Richter/Meinhof-Opera; Hotel Pro Forma’s Tomorrow, in a Year) 6 February, 2012
- Degrees of risk (Reviewed: Fragment31’s Irony is Not Enough; Jochen Roller & Saar Magal’s Basically I Don’t But Actually I Do) 4 February, 2012
- Dance Massive: The truth of the matter, or not (reviewed: Gideon Obarzanek’s Faker) 3 February, 2012
- Dance Massive: Let’s dance – and we do (reviewed: bluemouth inc.’s Dance Marathon) 3 February, 2012
- Dance Massive: The ambiguities of happiness (reviewed: Shaun Parker’s Happy as Larry) 3 February, 2012
- Dance Massive: into the dance-scape (reviewed: Narelle Benjamin’s In Glass) 3 February, 2012
- Dance Massive: Journey of the tribe (reviewed: Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham’s Sunstruck) 3 February, 2012
- incendiary performance: christoph schlingensief (Interview: Anna Teresa Scheer) 3 February, 2012
- Revelling in the now (RW: The Little Con, Dancehouse) 3 February, 2012
- the mysteries of curation (reviewed, Arts House, season 2/2011 – Aphids, Team MESS, post, Gabrielle Nankivell, Joan Baixas) 24 January, 2012
- from the fears of innocents (reviewed: Adam Wheeler’s It Sounds Silly for Chunky Move) 24 January, 2012
- how to speak about tomorrow (reviewed: Dewey Dell, Phillipe Quesne, Faustin Linyekula) 24 January, 2012
- RW: The Economist + Addendum 11 December, 2011
- RW: The Dollhouse 26 September, 2011
- Review: J.A.T.O. 29 July, 2011
- Review: Baal (Simon Stone @ Malthouse) 12 April, 2011
- Reviews: NO-SHOW and Invisible Atom 10 February, 2011
- Capsule review: Hiroaki Umeda’s Adapting for Distortion & Haptic. Or: Dude Dance. 15 October, 2010
- RW: Thyestes 11 October, 2010
- RW: The Trial, sociologically 29 August, 2010
- Review: Desire, psychoanalysis, and Sappho… in 9 fragments 13 August, 2010
- REVIEW: The Threepenny Opera 12 June, 2010
- Melbourne news, news 2 May, 2010
- RW: Elizabeth: Quasi per caso una donna 19 April, 2010
- Life… is a Dream. 1 December, 2009
- Reviewbit: in the absence of sunlight 25 September, 2009
- Reviewbit: Sonographs: Trips Along the Fault Line 25 September, 2009
- RW: Attract/Repel 23 September, 2009
- RW: En Trance 10 September, 2009
- RW: Run 28 August, 2009
- STC: Elling & Belvoir: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 19 July, 2009
- RW: Miracle 19 July, 2009
- RW: The Promise 18 July, 2009
- RW: The City 11 July, 2009
- RW: Happy Days 9 July, 2009
- RW: A Commercial Farce 15 June, 2009
- RW: Two Classical Comedies 4 June, 2009
- Semi- and non-reviews: text 14 May, 2009
- Teuila Postcards, or the revenge of the cultural object 13 May, 2009
- 3xSisters and independent theatre (a polemic) 30 April, 2009
- RW: The Wonderful World of Dissocia + Metamorphosis 28 April, 2009
- RW: Peer Gynt 4 April, 2009
- RW: Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd 23 March, 2009
- Dance Massive 8 March, 2009
- RW: I Love You Bro 24 February, 2009
- Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia 18 February, 2009
- Woyzeck 18 February, 2009
- Jason Lutes: Jar of Fools 16 February, 2009
- Anatomy Titus, The Work of Wonder: This Review is About the Audience. 17 December, 2008
- Vianne; outsmarted. 10 December, 2008
- Black Lung: Avast I & Avast II – The Welshman Cometh 7 December, 2008
- A Disappearing Number & The Age I’m In; observation on the middlebrow 3 December, 2008
- Review: Nomads 3 December, 2008
- Review: some dance shorts 2 December, 2008
- Review: Here: Where We’ve Always Been 30 November, 2008
- The Women of Troy; a more discursive response. 21 November, 2008
- Triptych 19 November, 2008
- Apocalypse and circular revenge: A View of Concrete & Family Stories 18 November, 2008
- Underground 15 November, 2008
- Ceci n’est pas une critique 14 November, 2008
- The Masque of the Red Death 3 November, 2008
- Linkroll 2 November, 2008
- Appetite: A post-critical review 30 October, 2008
- Sunstruck 22 October, 2008
- On Lucy Guerin; generally, and Corridor; specifically 20 October, 2008
- Liminal (Theatre and Performance): Oedipus – a poetic requiem 17 October, 2008
- Two Faced Review 16 October, 2008
- Batsheva Dance Company: Three & MAX. Or: ljudi su ljudima neprijatelji. 14 October, 2008
- The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest 6 October, 2008
- Reflection on sKin 26 September, 2008
- Review: The Zombie State 23 September, 2008
- Riječke ljetne noći: Penelope / Song of songs 20 July, 2008
- Relocated; after all 30 June, 2008
- Biennale di Venezia: 6. Festival Internazionale di Danza Moderna 28 June, 2008
- On horror and criticism: a review of reviews. 19 June, 2008
- Review: Kids Can Get Lost: A Live Instructional Guide on Safe Family Roadtrips 11 June, 2008
- Rio Saki & Other Falling Debris; with regret 11 June, 2008
- Review: Next Wave – 2008 Indigenous Program 11 June, 2008
- Ceci n’est pas une critique; 8 June, 2008
- Meryl Tankard; two stories. 5 June, 2008
- Attempts on Her Life; or the anatomy of a decade. 21 May, 2008
- The Scoundrel That You Need; or, a welcome addition to our limited (albeit expanding) repertoire 21 May, 2008
- Venus in Furs; 14 May, 2008
- Don Juan in Soho; 13 January, 2008
- reminded by… 15 December, 2007
- The Kreutzer Sonata/A Large Attendance in the Antechamber; angrily. 5 December, 2007
- The Chosen Vessel; unhappy. 15 November, 2007
- Melburnalia; acerbic. 15 November, 2007
- Jerome Bel: The Show Must Go On 18 October, 2007
- 27.ix.2007. Arts House: Sara Juli’s The Money Conversations 28 September, 2007
- How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found 30 May, 2006
Essays
These are the longer pieces published on GS over the years; sometimes they were reviews of one or two works, but usually they had an overarching topic that went beyond any single work, which is why I categorised them separately. This is also where I often let my interests intersect: urbanism and art, space and movement, history and the body.
- Published in 2015/2016 16 March, 2016
- The sad truth about time travel 16 March, 2015
- The Critic #03 13 March, 2015
- The Critic #02 (The Lifted Brow 23) 10 March, 2015
- The Critic #01 (The Lifted Brow 22) 7 March, 2015
- ‘How to tell the difference between a good play and a poor one’ in seven easy scenes 20 May, 2014
- It has arrived: a review in pictures (The Lifted Brow) 6 May, 2014
- The Conversation: Sex, rape and role models – how women in comedy perform 17 April, 2014
- Adelaide Festival (somewhat overdue) 14 April, 2014
- Durational Blogging 23 March, 2014
- Theatre criticism in Australia: what is actually going on?, with some stats 14 December, 2012
- An obituary to Theatre Notes, and perhaps to criticism 12 December, 2012
- On breaking no law – Berlin by bicycle 8 October, 2012
- At home in travel – Dancehouse Diary 4 October, 2012
- BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin: PR English, asking the wrong questions, and the festivalisation of urban planning. 15 June, 2012
- On dance on film 15 February, 2012
- Ah, but anyone can shit on a play… 8 February, 2012
- Cultural policy and the arts 7 February, 2012
- On girls and bikes 5 August, 2011
- Ville Radieuse; Croatia. 14 July, 2011
- Re-thinking rape: It’s Not That They Don’t Understand, They Just Don’t Like The Answer 6 July, 2011
- Critic as audience member 22 May, 2011
- Guest post: an apology to Obama 11 May, 2011
- Simon Stephens: Theatertreffen keynote speech 9 May, 2011
- Kushner/Walters: ‘I think, therefore I am not a drama student’ 5 November, 2010
- Swimming pools, Muslims, and the burqini in Dandenong 11 October, 2010
- Review: Desire, psychoanalysis, and Sappho… in 9 fragments 13 August, 2010
- Changing the Face of Australian Theatre 7 June, 2010
- Show Ponies for a Young Nation 7 June, 2010
- QUERY: what kinds of theatre experiences have you had? 9 May, 2010
- RW: Attract/Repel 23 September, 2009
- Seven Jewish Children (1?) 22 May, 2009
- Pretentiousness 21 May, 2009
- 3xSisters and independent theatre (a polemic) 30 April, 2009
- Among the backpatters and backstabbers 18 April, 2009
- RW: Peer Gynt 4 April, 2009
- A Disappearing Number & The Age I’m In; observation on the middlebrow 3 December, 2008
- On accents and other forms of realism: a mini essay. 16 June, 2008
- Ghost in the Shell, and the fluid self in body and mind; recapitulation. 26 January, 2008
- reminded by… 15 December, 2007
- The Kreutzer Sonata/A Large Attendance in the Antechamber; angrily. 5 December, 2007
- Jerome Bel: The Show Must Go On 18 October, 2007
- 27.ix.2007. Arts House: Sara Juli’s The Money Conversations 28 September, 2007
Audiostage
Audiostage is a podcast of hour-long conversations with theatre artists, scholars, and critics. It was started as an off-shoot of Guerrilla Semiotics, and it continues to live on its own website.
- Audio Stage, e.3, ep.3: Bojana Cvejic, and some thoughts 31 August, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.4, ep.2: Rachel Perks, and some thoughts 28 July, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.4, ep.1: Zvonimir Dobrovic 28 June, 2016
- audio stage, s.3, ep.2: Deborah Jowitt 6 June, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.3, ep.1: Chrysa Parkinson 30 April, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.3.1, ep.1: Andrew Haydon 16 March, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.2, ep.5: Esther Anatolitis & Angharad Wynne-Jones 16 March, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.2, ep.4: Jolyon James & Sonya Suares 16 March, 2016
- audio stage, s.2, ep. 3: Roslyn Oades 16 March, 2016
- Audio Stage, s.2, ep. 2: Jane Howard & Richard Watts 5 July, 2015
- Audio Stage is back!, season 2, ep.1: Patricia Cornelius & Melissa Reeves 21 June, 2015
- Audio Stage, ep.5 : Julian Meyrick 22 August, 2014
- Audio Stage, ep.4: John Kachoyan, Mark Wilson, Marcel Dorney 8 August, 2014
- Audio Stage, ep.3: Angela Conquet 25 July, 2014
- Audio Stage ep.2 : Alison Croggon on writing theatre history 11 July, 2014
- Introducing: our theatre radio, Audio Stage 27 June, 2014