The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Lane Cove Theatre Company New Theatre Newtown – buy tickets here. Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5pmFinal performance, Sat 24 May 5pm A girl who can only speak in the voice of others as she communicates with her dead father and a woman who never shuts up and […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
May
19
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Lane Cove Theatre Company back by popular demand. (Theatre Review)
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May
17
Something to be Done – Gabatwa Productions and the art of the body. (Theatre review)
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Something To be Done Gabatwa Studios – buy tickets here. Tap gallery From 13 May to 1 June A striking image heralds the start of Gabriel McCarthy’s one man show, Something to be done. McCarthy himself inside a tulle bag, his grip evoking a closed off womb space. He wakes, and finding himself stranded […]
May
16
Godzilla – Gareth Edwards and the Godzilla film we had to have. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Godzilla is one of those film legacies, a little like James Bond, who managed to collapse retro chic with contemporary perspective due to several key happy accidents of politics and style throughout the years. The original 1954 Honda film carried its anti nuclear War themes (it was made only nine years after the bombing of […]
May
14
The Broken Circle Breakdown – Felix Van Groeningen and the attraction of opposites. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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This is a review I did for the Sydney Film Festival twelve months ago, but seeing as it is about to open in Sydney, I’ll bring the review forward to here. The Broken Circle Breakdown is Felix Van Groeningen’s fourth film. It is in competition at the Sydney Film festival this year and you […]
May
14
His Mothers Voice – bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company and a cast of millions. (Theatre Review)
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His Mothers Voice bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company ATYP 30/4/14 through to 17/5/14 You can grab your tickets here. In Mao Zedong’s 1937 essay “On Contradiction” he further examines the theories of Marx and Lenin around dialectical materialism and the idea of the contradictions that, for Marx, provided the impetus for further human evolution but for Mao, […]
May
13
Lisa chats with Justin Fleming, author of His Mothers Voice. (Theatre Interview)
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His Mothers Voice – grab tickets here. My very wonderful conversation with Justin Fleming is one of the beautiful things that happened to me in the early days of April that was “delayed” by “life” getting in the path of my blogging and the virtual world that we all know is the really real anyway. […]
May
13
Trainspotting – Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions take us to the dark side of ourselves. (Theatre review)
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Trainspotting Black Box Theatre and Emu Productions King Street Theatre till May 24. Buy Tickets here. I saw Irvine Welsh at the Adelaide writers festival a few years back. He is an engaging speaker with a warm, generous personality, who puts up a convincing show of modesty. Among his many witty anecdotes was a consideration […]
May
12
Antigone: The Burial at Thebes – ancient theatre reflects modern times. (Theatre Review)
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At the time of this writing, the opportunity to see Antigone: The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney produced by Furies Theatre Company has passed. Unfortunately a tight season for the play and an enormous imposition of real life for me coincided but I wanted to continue my review, because this is a […]
May
10
Broken English – Zoe Cassavetes and the conversation we all avoid. (Film Review)
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The radical tension that underlies the romance genre is a kind of post modern reflexive in reverse. Where works, I’m thinking here mostly of books and films, seek to include an awareness of self in a clever catchall fashion, romance as a genre has the opposite problem of self-awareness; that is it is self-conscious in […]
May
10
Skinny blogging
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Hello lovely readers, Apologies for skinny blogging of late – I had a particularly heavy Tax quarter with my day job (that is still ongoing), some big family commitments and then on top of it all I got a rather nasty dose of that flu that is going around, that took me quite a few […]
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