Culture
Susie Dee and Patricia Cornelius deliver the wake-up call Australian theatre needs
The anthology series’ self-aware absurdity makes it the perfect show for our times
Jock Serong’s ‘On the Java Ridge’ shows us a world our politicians would prefer we didn’t see
Art Gallery of NSW celebrates the work of iconic Indigenous photographer Mervyn Bishop
Does the playful transgression of Caryl Churchill’s ‘Cloud Nine’ still have the capacity to shock?
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a modern lesson in repression but ignores wider, more complex issues
State Theatre Company South Australia updates Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ for contemporary Australia
Briohny Doyle’s ‘Adult Fantasy’ looks at the increasingly blurred definition of adulthood in the 21st century
Robert Dessaix’s ‘The Pleasures of Leisure’ is a 21st-century defence of idleness
With their two new other-worldly albums, Shabazz Palaces continue to evade categorisation
Laura Poitras’ ‘Risk’ sidesteps the biggest question about Julian Assange
Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ was worth the 20-year wait