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EXPLAINED: 3 | Vintage Vibes

Julia review – new play about Julia Gillard misses an opportunity

Justine Clarke is electrifying delivering the former PM’s misogyny speech, but the work fails to reckon with the complexities of her legacy

The Guardian - AU

Fences review – Australian debut of August Wilson play is a remarkable achievement

Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre CompanyThe STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast

The Guardian - AU

At the 2023 Adelaide Festival, the best works shimmer with a brutal honesty on incarceration, exile – and Nikolai Gogol

Few Adelaideans remember a time before the Adelaide Festival. Formed in 1960 as a civic enterprise and financed against loss by prominent Adelaide businessmen, the festival today remains arguably the most robust international arts festival in our region.

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Björk was the big-ticket name – but Perth Festival’s heart was found in Bikutsi 3000’s afrofuturist musing on African resistance

For the culturally curious, February and March in Perth can be a rich maelstrom, with Perth Fringe and Perth Festival. We have apparently the world’s “third largest” fringe festival (after Edinburgh and Adelaide), but I’m not sure why this is good.

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