This winter Fever presents Starstruck in Melbourne, in association with the Smithsonian Institute – the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. This is an immersive and fully interactive virtual reality experience centred around the universe and beyond, and the various telescopes we use in order to learn more about the veil of stars that blankets our night sky. This immersive experience is brought to you using the same technology as the Machu Picchu and Titanic virtual reality exhibits that Fever has previously put together and brought to Melbourne – and you’re in for an adventure you won’t soon forget.…
Author: Eloise Duncan
Leviticus is a horror film directed by Adrian Chiarella and is an unsettling and deeply disturbing commentary on being gay in Australia. It explores religious trauma, queer repression and internalised homophobia and is ultimately an allegory for the realities of gay conversion therapy. The Aussie film is set in a highly religious unnamed rural steel town and filmed in various regional Victorian places such as Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh, Werribee and Geelong. Chiarella uses the vast landscapes to create a sense of isolation and present a bleak, monotonous atmosphere which serves as the perfect backdrop for the story to unfold in.…
MR BIG aka Tatay, A Transwoman and That Tiring Tune!, as directed by Beng Oh currently running at Fortyfivedownstairs on Flinders Lane, is a dark comedy centred around family, support and understanding or the lack thereof for young queer and trans people The play explores queer, Filipino and Australian cultures, touching on family expectations, identity, pride and the immigrant experience. Set between 1990s Manila and present-day Melbourne, MR BIG aka Tatay shows both the similarities and differences between these worlds through the playwright’s own lived experience. As the story moves between the two settings, it highlights the tensions that can…
If you’re looking for something fun and educational to take your kids to on the weekend or during the upcoming school holidays then look no further than 13,000 kilometres away from Melbourne. You don’t have to actually leave Melbourne though, as Fever presents Machu Picchu: Journey to the Lost City – the VR experience, a unique glimpse into what life was like around 1450 A.D. at the height of the Incan Empire. This experience was designed with the help of Incan historians on the real site of the city of Machu Picchu. The team was given exclusive access during the…
At last the wait is over and the most ozmopolitan and fabulotious film of the year is here. Let us be glad that they recorded the duology in such quick succession. The first Wicked movie was extremely popular, it was a major box office success and the highest grossing film adaption of a broadway musical, so it goes without saying that Wicked: For Good had some huge (ruby red) shoes to fill. While highly anticipated, fans of Wicked the musical and the Wizard of Oz were a little concerned that Wicked: For Good might stray too far from what we…
Do you have what it takes to break out of prison? Fever’s newest Melbourne attraction, Prison Island, is a series of unique escape rooms designed to test you and your friends. From disarming bombs to solving mysteries, each cell requires a certain amount of skill, brains and brawn. Prison Island originates in Scandinavia with 34 different cells to choose from with new missions in each one. In teams of 2-5, your goal is to earn as many points as you can in your allotted time, you can even check the leaderboards outside of the cells to see how you’re doing…
He’s here, the scheming demon, the Broadway poltergeist, the striped menace himself, Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice). The eponymous ghostly host of this musical may be dead but he sure does slay. The eight-time Tony Award-nominated Beetlejuice The Musical has made its Australian premiere, opening at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre last week. This exclusive Melbourne season brings Tim Burton’s cult classic to life in a riotous stage adaptation featuring a score by Australia’s own Eddie Perfect, who also stars in the title role Let’s skip the tears and start on the whole, you know, Eddie Perfect thing. Alex Brightman the broadway actor for Beetlejuice may…
Titanic: A Voyage Through Time is an immersive virtual reality experience that opened in Melbourne this week, just in time to take the kids to these school holidays. Presented by Fever, this is an educational journey through the history of the Titanic from how and when it was built to where it is now and what it was like before the iceberg tore a great big hole in the hull of the ship. With the stories of real people who were aboard the ship, other players and interactive objects, the experience uses gaming to make history fun for the whole…
Do you remember the tragic fairytale about a princess who falls victim to her jealous step mother, a prince and 7 appropriately named small men who save her? Well it’s evident nobody on the production team of the new live action (sort of) remake of Disney’s Snow White remembered. Snow White is the modern take on the beloved 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that just hit the theatres and it must’ve hit hard because I got whiplash. Forget Prince Florian, the man of her dreams, here’s a random guy named Jonathan. What’s that, you were expecting charming…
Club Broadway is Australia’s premiere musical theatre nightclub, offering a unique experience where theatre kids and Disney adults can dance and belt out their favourite songs to their heart’s content. At these events, original tracks from renowned musicals are played on a high-energy club sound system. On 24 January, the event returned to Melbourne, taking over the historic Northcote Theatre, hosted by DJ Dan Murphy who is the creator of Club Broadway as well as its MC. DJ Dan Murphy was incredible, he kept the vibes going all night. He mentioned we were all early because we’re musical theatre people.…
The third year students from the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) showcase their cumulative skills and emotional experiences through their time at the institute in their performance Muse showing until 7 December. This jaw dropping show is expertly curated by Tegan Carmichael, with artistic consultancy from Alonso Pineda, Emma Pursey and Donna Dunmire. The real backbone behind Muse is the artists themselves, the students, who reveal their strengths with different apparatuses such as aerial straps, dance trapeze and diablo. They also explore their relationship with these tools and how they’ve failed over their years at NICA, how their emotions…
Co-founder of Melbourne-based social enterprise STREAT, Rebecca Scott OAM has been named the 2024 Melburnian of the Year, alongside Alex Dekker as Young Melburnian of the Year, at this year’s prestigious Melbourne Awards Gala at Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday Night. Melbourning was delighted to have been invited to attend this event that recognisesthe roles committed Melburnians play in making our city a better place. Ten awards were presented to social enterprises and individuals by the newly re-elected Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nick Reece. The 2024 Melburnian of the Year and Young Melburnian of the Year awards were additionally presented…