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New play Housework is a future Australian classic – a Don’s Party for our time

Housework, a new play by Emily Steel, lifts the rock off politics to expose its crawling, ruthless, yet undeniably comic underside. The result is masterful, hilarious and deeply incisive.

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A new stage adaptation of Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs is a delightful homage to theatrical storytelling

Jack Maggs is a delight and a homage to theatrical storytelling in Australia.

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With The Puzzle, David Williamson shows his continual capacity to satirise the middle-class

Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to me in the foyer, “life would be pretty boring without sex”. However, he writes, in the production program that this comes with a proviso that…

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Sale of chemical used in suicides of three transgender women should be restricted, Victorian inquest finds

The chemical has been used in dozens of deaths in the state and federal government should take action, coroner says

The Guardian - AU

The dancers with disability exploring sex and love: ‘Once you open the floodgates, it’s pretty interesting’

For 30 years, Restless Dance Theatre has been empowering its performers to use dance to tackle topics rarely broached on or off the stage

The Guardian - AU

Five young people dead: inquest lays bare the struggles of transgender Victorians seeking mental health support

A coronial inquiry into deaths of five transgender women hears calls for system-wide reform

The Guardian - AU

Play School meets Ikea: new Australian play Welcome to Your New Life hilariously captures new motherhood

Anna Goldsworthy’s hilarious and beautifully honest book Welcome To Your New Life celebrates the joy and roller-coaster ride of first-time parenting.

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The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? review – Claudia Karvan stars in bestiality comedy that loses itself in farce

Edward Albee’s 2002 play has a deliberately ridiculous premise – but this production eschews the real issues it could interrogate in favour of broad laughs

The Guardian - AU

Neighbours in Stapleford fear being 'blocked off' over new community centre plan for park

The £6.4m project would transform the existing changing pavilion used by Stapleford FC and part of Hickings Lane Recreation Ground, Stapleford, into a community and young people's centre.

Nottingham Post

New State Theatre Company play Catherdral dives into issues of grief and depression

A new play by South Australia's State Theatre Company tells the story of a diver trying to escape from the bottom of a flooded sinkhole.

ABC News

South Australia's Limestone Coast was formed from the bones of dead fish. Cathedral brings the story of these caves to the stage

Review: Cathedral, directed by Shannon Rush for the State Theatre Company of South Australia

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