# Melbourne Stage Review > Independent reviews, essays and criticism exploring theatre, performance and the cultural life of Narrm/Melbourne Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About](https://melbournestagereview.com/about.md) - Melbourne Stage Review is an independent publication devoted to theatre and performance in Narrm/Melbourne. We publish reviews, essays, interviews and reflective musings, with particular attention to theatre, contemporary performance, dance and installation art. We're interested in what a work is a… - [Privacy](https://melbournestagereview.com/privacy.md) - Melbourne Stage Review respects your privacy. If you subscribe, we collect the email address you provide to manage your subscription and send you publication updates. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails. Melbourne Stage Review uses Ghost to provide its website,… ## Posts - [The abundance of almost nothing: Holy Fool](https://melbournestagereview.com/the-abundance-of-almost-nothing-holy-fool.md) - Exceptional physical comedy opens into a spiritual reckoning in Holy Fool — a wildly funny, profoundly moving and utterly sublime piece of theatre, exquisitely directed by Giovanni Fusetti and performed by Fabio Motta with breathtaking skill, generosity and soul. - [Learning to see: The Memory Mirror](https://melbournestagereview.com/learning-to-see-the-memory-mirror.md) - A beautifully nuanced and superbly realised new Australian play, The Memory Mirror reveals its layers with exquisite control. Georgina Luck’s writing, Drew Tingwell’s direction and a stellar ensemble create theatre that is at once playful, mysterious and profoundly affecting. - [Stop: How to Eat Rabbit](https://melbournestagereview.com/stop-how-to-eat-rabbit.md) - In How to Eat Rabbit, two friends burrow away at the end of the world, rationing power, sorting tins, craving chocolate and trying to keep each other alive. Between tenderness, betrayal and a two-headed rabbit, survival is one problem. What makes survival worthwhile is another. - [Hidden a little longer: Beneath the Surface](https://melbournestagereview.com/hidden-a-little-longer-beneath-the-surface.md) - Moving from lockdown balconies to sibling rivalry, boardroom manoeuvring and an impossible bargain, Edge of the Heart Productions’ four-play collection finds humour, tension and simmering unease in the textures of ordinary lives. - [The making of the pack: Savages](https://melbournestagereview.com/the-making-of-the-pack-savages.md) - Uncanny, playful and increasingly menacing, Kitan Petkovski’s masterful production of Patricia Cornelius’s Savages watches camaraderie slowly curdle into the ugliest form of male entitlement. - [Smile, we are watching you: Cold War 2.0](https://melbournestagereview.com/smile-we-are-watching-you-cold-war-2-0.md) - Punk, politics, surveillance and pop culture collide in Cold War 2.0, a theatrical barrage where meaning is both made and lost in the noise. - [No safe distance: The Jungle and the Sea](https://melbournestagereview.com/no-safe-distance-the-jungle-and-the-sea.md) - An epic story of war, displacement and moral choice becomes achingly intimate in S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack’s exceptionally powerful production. - [The choreography of attention: Chunky Move’s Time Remaining](https://melbournestagereview.com/the-choreography-of-attention-chunky-moves-time-remaining.md) - Hamilton’s Time Remaining is an exhilaratingly intelligent work: visually assured, formally adventurous, and alive to the peculiar contemporary anxiety of being engulfed by the technological systems of our own making. - [Circles in the water: A credo for theatre criticism](https://melbournestagereview.com/circles-in-the-water-a-credo-for-theatre-criticism.md) - What do I owe myself when I go to the theatre? An essay about attention, expertise, repetition, astonishment, and the kind of critic I hope to become and to remain. - [Some home truths are hard to swallow: Cut Chilli](https://melbournestagereview.com/some-home-truths-are-hard-to-swallow-cut-chilli.md) - Wickedly witty, deeply complicated and remarkably tender, Cut Chilli finds comedy, anguish and profound intimacy in the messy politics of family, intercountry adoption and what it means to belong. - [Break of Day: Dignity without innocence](https://melbournestagereview.com/break-of-day-dignity-without-innocence.md) - A deeply moving new Australian play about class, care, social mobility and the lives we make within forces we did not choose. - [The clown gag inside the horror: Marginalia](https://melbournestagereview.com/marginalia-pummel-squad-review.md) - Funny, disturbing and increasingly unhinged, Pummel Squad’s Marginalia uses grotesque clowning and poor theatre to expose a world warped by power, precarity and need. - [Notes from an unfinished exhibition](https://melbournestagereview.com/notes-from-an-unfinished-exhibition.md) - In Exhibition: First and Second, Caroline Lee offers a startlingly intimate glimpse of a performance still becoming — its uncertainty and workings laid bare. - [Funeral Flowers: Still growing](https://melbournestagereview.com/funeral-flowers-still-growing.md) - Emotionally devastating, psychologically astute and quietly transformative, Funeral Flowers is a remarkable Australian premiere. Lucy Ansell's extraordinary solo performance brings Emma Dennis-Edwards' compassionate meditation on care, resilience and hope vividly to life. - [Losing Face and the trouble with ageing well](https://melbournestagereview.com/losing-face-and-the-trouble-with-ageing-well.md) - Marieke Hardy’s Losing Face turns the contemporary project of “ageing well” into grotesque farce. But as the bodies become stranger and the jokes keep coming, a more uncomfortable question emerges: what exactly are we laughing at? - [Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity: What might we become](https://melbournestagereview.com/masterpieces-theatre-works-review.md) - In a world of extraordinary brutality and beauty, Heather McDonald’s Masterpieces asks what human beings preserve, what they destroy, and what they might yet become. ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://melbournestagereview.com/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://melbournestagereview.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://melbournestagereview.com/llms-full.txt)