Apocalipstick | Polytoxic
circus, cabaret, burlesque, review Dr Fed circus, cabaret, burlesque, review Dr Fed

Apocalipstick | Polytoxic

Apocalipstick used drag and gender-fuckery to engage the audience through laughter, the absurd, and the excess. There is nothing better to make someone think about serious issues than to make them laugh! Laughter sits with you in a light vein and it makes you come back to the funny sketch again and again looking for one more laugh. Drag invites laughter by highlighting the contradictions of gender through the excess: hoping for a fuck, office tape and markers become the perfect beauty tools for a face-lift and make-up, and thin-glass toxic masculinity is the weapon of the man looking for acceptance in the wolf pack.

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Common People Dance Eisteddfod 2 | Common People Dance Project
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Common People Dance Eisteddfod 2 | Common People Dance Project

On Saturday night, I watched the second greatest battle of all time... The Common People Dance Eisteddfod 2. The teams of suburban gladiators had a dance off once again to prove which side of Brisbane is the best. The event was held at the South Bank Piazza; south of the bank, west of the city, east of the border and north of the rest of the world.

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The Type | Pink Matter
dance, review Nadia Jade dance, review Nadia Jade

The Type | Pink Matter

I love seeing young women who are free. It makes my heart sing. I don’t think you ever regret making art like this - fun, determined and with all your mates and for the pure joy of it and cause it’s important and just because you want to move like this.

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Bitch On Heat | Leah Shelton
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Bitch On Heat | Leah Shelton

Leah doesn’t pull any punches as she utilises high-camp, absurdist, lip-synching performance art to explore the history of the sexualisation and vilification of the female body through ancient myths, porn, the politics of stereotypical 50’s house wives, and revenge movies heroines.

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Love Letters to Fuckbois | Wightman & Stark
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Love Letters to Fuckbois | Wightman & Stark

A simple premise: the two protagonists read out so-called love letters to men from their past, all the while discussed with just the right amount of wry humour as you would share over a bottle of cheap white with a girlfriend. The stories contain familiar faces and well-known archetypes we have ALL slipped into bed with. Regrets I've had a few, but maybe not so many as these lasses...

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Wheel of Fortune | TAM Presents
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Wheel of Fortune | TAM Presents

The class commentary of the original remains firmly on the down low, and leaves you to make your judgements afterwards in the bar; the play sets the scene, but in this modern world of sexual promiscuity are there really any forbidden fruits to scandalize the punters?

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