Two men in midlife navigate their growing desire to commit to each other in a changing Australia

The stage adaptation thrums with dark energy – but the stakes and politics that drove the 1990s novel don’t quite land when it’s set in the modern day

An inquiry found the murder was ‘merely a high-spirited frolic which went wrong’. Fifty years later, in Watershed, Christos Tsiolkas retells it in the sacred form of oratorio

Responding to rolling catastrophes, the Australian author turns inwards, with a celebration of eroticism and beauty that occasionally undermines itself

Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre has turned the novelist’s 1995 work into a visceral, aural blast of sex, drugs and queer energy