Pop over to The Essential and check out what they’ve got going on. I’ve got some recently published articles there: Feature Article: Emotional Resonance The Essential asked me to write a piece about the emotional connection we have to one particular song or album and why we feel that way, and I chose Mazzy Star’s […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
November
25
Belle of the Cross – Poetry in the dust and dirt of the Kings Cross homeless. (Theatre review)
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Belle of the Cross The Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November. You can grab tickets here. “The Lorikeets look down on us”, says Belle. “But down here are the seagulls, the pigeons and the ibis…” the streets that Belle calls her home are not for the beautiful birds who live in the high city […]
November
25
The Les Robinson Stroy – The bohemian life on Sydney’s shores. (Theatre review)
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The Les Robinson Story The Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November 2014 You can grab tickets here. There’s no getting around it, we need our Bohemians. The bourgeoisie need them to feed their bereft imaginations, bankers and financiers need them to hate, the tourists need them to visit, politicians need them to ignore, the […]
November
25
Interview with Martin Portus – The Les Robinson Story (Theatre Interview)
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The Les Robinson Story Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November You can grab tickets here The Les Robinson Story is a monologue by Kieran Carroll about one of Australia’s forgotten literary greats – a problem many people ahead of their time experience in their day, but is ususually followed by a posthumous discovery when […]
November
25
Interview with Gertrude Ingeborg – Belle of the Cross (Theatre Interview)
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Belle Of The Cross Old Fitzroy Theatre 18 – 29 November. You can grab tickets here. Currently playing at The Old Fitzroy Theatre is Angelika Fremd’s monologue Belle of the Cross, performed by Gertrude Ingeborg and directed by David Ritchie. Belle of the Cross is a beautifully poetic homage to people Fremd has seen and […]
November
24
A sad farewell to SITCO and the end of an era at the Old Fitz Theatre. (Article)
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They say all good things must come to an end, and while this is nearly always true, very rarely do things come to as abrupt an end as the one forced on the successful Sydney Independent Theatre Company, the enormously experienced talent of Julie Baz and David Jeffrey. It heralds the end of a fantastic […]
November
21
The Mule – Toilet humour with an art house touch. (Film Review)
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The challenge in contemporary toilet humour (which we can’t consider abandoning as giggling about our bowel movements and the unique ability they have to offend each of our five senses is a universal form of humour) is freshness; essential when you consider we’ve been laughing at our own toilet habits before we could talk, and […]
November
19
The Worst Kept Secrets – Thomas De Angelis and privilege. (Theatre review)
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The Worst Kept Secrets Bontom Productions Currently showing at the Seymour Centre, 18 Nov through to 22. You can grab your tickets here. Think privileged ex State Premier involved in a mid-life crises with a heavily satirised dose of William’s Cat On a Hot Tin Roof plastered over the top and you have the bones of […]
November
18
The Dark Horse – Chess as the game of life. (Film Review)
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A bi-polar chess master, tossed out of his brother’s house because of insurmountable differences, taking shelter under a memorial on Kaiti Hill, an obelisk that resembles a giant chess piece, is one of the many images that imbue the strikingly original film The Dark Horse with intelligence that acts as a panacea to the rather saccharine […]
November
17
Jade Emperess discovers Australia – Theatre I was late to review. (Theatre Review)
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Jade Empress Discovers Australia The Sydney Fringe. No longer playing. Find out more here. There are many joys to be had at the Sydney Fringe, all the more if you’re willing to open up your heart and your mind to the principles of The Fringe Festival, which is largely that local creativity in the arts […]
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