A romp through Homer in awful faux-French accents is one show that caught arts editor HELEN MUSA’s eye in this week’s Arts in the City column. 

A Slightly Isolated Dog, who’ve previously been here with performances of Don Juan and Jekyll & Hyde, are back at The Q with The Trojan War, in which its performers, armed with awful faux-French accents, romp through Homer. The Q, Queanbeyan, May 14-15.

The Street Theatre has announced that author and dance artist Emma Batchelor and writer-actor Thea Jade have been selected for its 2024 residency program, aimed at artists on the early to mid-career cusp.

Subject to Change is the major production for QL2 Dance in 2024. With 26 young Canberran dance artists at the forefront, it is a triple bill of new dance works created by Australian choreographers Alisdair Macindoe from Melbourne, Gabrielle Nankivell from Brisbane and Ruth Osborne, retiring artistic director of QL2 Dance. The Playhouse, May 16-18.

National Opera plans to mark Mother’s Day with an afternoon of music and memories called Things My Mother Made, All Saints Church, Ainslie, May 12.

Rebus Theatre has announced a partnership with Canberra Theatre Centre that offers a work-ready program for young adults with neurodivergence or intellectual disabilities, to culminate in front-of-house roles at the theatre centre this year and next. The first group in the program, Expressive Pathways, starts in July. Enrolments to rebustheatre.com/programs by May 13.

Bungendore artist Annie Lok’s Rabbit Holes series is the latest exhibition to be showcased in Queanbeyan’s No Name Lane Outdoor Photography Gallery, off Monaro Street. The show features seven works from Lok, who constructs her pieces from photographic and AI-generated imagery. Lok says: “Each work is a choice, as the viewer, like Alice, follows the white rabbit down the hole and explores the Wonderland beyond.” 

Canberra poet, mediator and lawyer Vesna Cvjeticanin, who regularly presents at Smith’s and 2XX, has traced the journeys of 12 migrant women from Romania, Afghanistan, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Peru, North Macedonia, Chile, Bosnia, Malaysia and South Africa in her new book, An Unexpected Life. Available on Amazon. 

Artistic director and pianist Kathryn Selby joins the Goldner String Quartet in Luminaries, to perform together in the quartet’s farewell season, performing Shostakovich, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. NGA James Fairfax Theatre, May 17.