We had been planning this holiday for a very long time. It’s rare that my husband and I can take an extended period of leave at the same time as we work very different jobs. So we’d carefully lined up our individual leave to coincide in the middle of August…

The Last Great Hunt is a collective of Perth-based theatre makers with a reputation for creating shows that challenge and engage audiences with unique storylines and experimental set designs. They describe their artistic practice as drawing on a “diverse range of skills” utilising “aesthetics to create an imaginative and eclectic…

The tropical city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory is very far from the cosmopolitan city of Sydney on the country’s east coast. So it is special when a Sydney arts collective decides to exhibit at Darwin’s Northern Centre for Contemporary Art. SNO is the acronym for Sydney Non Objective…

Bright halogen lights shine above and a sterile white tiled floor stretches beneath. “Surekha, do you have a pet at home?’” asks the blue plastic capped man in theatre scrubs as he holds the mask snug around the child’s face. The child is slight but long of limb, seemingly older…

Australia’s Northern Territory in the wet season is a formidable experience for most people. Heavy humidity, lashing torrential rainfall, gusty winds, lightning storms and the occassional risk of encountering a ‘saltie’ (Aussie slang for a saltwater crocodile) in the swampy mangroves that surround the state’s coastline. …