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The clown gag inside the horror: Marginalia
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.
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Notes from an unfinished exhibition
In Exhibition: First and Second, Caroline Lee offers a startlingly intimate glimpse of a performance still becoming — its uncertainty and workings laid bare.
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Funeral Flowers: Still growing
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.
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Losing Face and the trouble with ageing well
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?
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity: What might we become
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.