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Winter on Italy’s Amalfi Coast brings a vague melancholy: a hangover from too many proseccos the summer past. The tourists have dissipated back into their real lives and most businesses have closed up for Christmas. From the outside looking in, the coast …

Sydney Festival’s poster girl is Meow Meow whose orange mermaid fish lips adorn bus stops across the city. But while the cabaret performer is dominating publicity, the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent in which she performs is also hosting lower profile yet equally dynamic …

A British nanny glides into a regimented family, upending its members’ structured lives and rigid routines. This may sound like a Mary Poppins scenario, but it isn’t. This is Dawn French’s new novel According to Yes: an often-gritty and poignant account of …

Vortex Temporum, at Carriageworks until January 18 as part of the Sydney Festival, is brilliant in the same way as an ingenuous mathematical formula. Everything about the work, which sets out to explore sound and time, is circular – from the concentric …

Marrugeku’s Cut the Sky is a thought-provoking work that challenges the human race to change its attitude to the Earth before it’s too late. This major new work from Broome’s internationally acclaimed dance-theatre company Marrugeku is an impassioned plea to regard the land as the …

The new Casus Circus act, Knee Deep, now performing as part of the Sydney Festival in the Famous Spiegeltent, is not your usual circus affair. On the black raised platform the Brisbane foursome – three men, one woman – share a story …

Grammy-nominated three-piece, The Tiger Lillies, is one of the more interesting acts at this year’s Sydney Festival performing to full houses in the Famous Spiegeltent. The show falls somewhere between a circus act and a gypsy troupe that astounds with the range …

A friend rang me yesterday and said: “Have you heard? Bowie has died.” I had only just come off Facebook and there had been no mention. How could he have passed? He looked in apparent rude good health and had only a …

What Will Have Been, an intimate and stripped back circus show by Brisbane-based company Circa, has found a perfect—albeit temporary—home at The Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent. The audience, seated in a pit at eye-level to the stage, can feel the floor shake when …

There’s a very good reason Meow Meow’s shows sell out so quickly: she’s indisputably fabulous. Her latest show, Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid, which premiered at this year’s Sydney Festival, delights audiences with another impeccable virtuoso performance that doesn’t miss a beat. Part …