The Nice Guys The complex notion of the teen age girl as seen through the eyes of men remains predictably unresolved in Shane Blacks The Nice Guys. The opening scenes reveal a teenage boy coming to terms with females and as expected its through a sexual context. The Nice Guys is set in nineteen seventy-seven, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
May
28
The Nice Guys – touching on tough subjects without comment. (Film Review)
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May
25
The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos beats us to death with his laboured philosophy again. (Film review)
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Note: I first wrote this review in October 25, 2015. If you’re at all familiar with Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous works, then disappointingly, you don’t have to see The Lobster. He needs a new set of friends, or a new set of books or something, because the tiresomely dull philosophy at the core of The Lobster […]
May
18
Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse – the delicate and tragic beauty of being human. (Theatre Review)
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Seven Days In The Life Of Simon Labrosse Theatre Excentrique, Creative Space 99 Darlinghurst. 18-29 May 2016. You can grab your tickets here. Image credits: Emma Lois As Simon Labrosse (Gerry Sont) reveals his life to us in Seven Days In The Life of Simon Labrosse, we are forced to confront the dichotomy Capitalism demands; […]
May
15
As We Forgive – Seeing ourselves in the eyes of youth. (Theatre Review)
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As We Forgive Griffin Theatre Company and Tasmania Performs Discover more about As We Forgive here. It was Freud who asked not if a man is justified to be jealous of his wife, but rather why his jealousy was necessary to his sense of self worth. In a world of unexamined morality – a morality […]
May
10
Black Jesus – The difficulties in Zimbabwe reach our protected shores. (Theatre Review)
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Black Jesus bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company, 29 Apil – 21 May King Cross Theatre, You can grab your tickets here Image credit: Nick McKinlay Watching Black Jesus, one is struck by how rarely we see stories from Africa on our Sydney stages – and how few of even them are written by African writers. The people […]
May
09
Dirty People – Millenials on the verge of greatness. (Theatre review)
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Dirty People Doonbrae Productions and Jackrabbit Theatre Find out more about this production here. Photo credits: Tom Cramond Like every generation before them, Millennial’s get a lot of bad press. Narcissistic, delusions of grandeur, more interested in becoming a personal assistant to a star than enter politics, they are the generation that receive on average […]
May
05
We Will Rock You – Who is the reall Killer (of) Queen? (Theatre Review)
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We Will Rock You Sydney Lyric Theatre From Thursday 28 April. You can grab your tickets here As a hard core Queen fan, I always knew I was in for a punish with We Will Rock You. The “rock musical” that we masticate so ferociously these days is always an anemic affair, a facsimile of […]
May
04
Edward Gants Amazing Feats Of Lonliness – The audience has lost its way. (Theatre review)
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Edward Gants Amazing Feats of Loneliness PACT theatre, Polyamorous Productions 4 May to Saturday 7 May. You can grab your ticket here. Photo credits: Liam O’Keefe When Anthony Neilson has Edward Gant (Will Hickey) forge his final tragic lament, it is impossible to miss that his soulful loneliness is the loneliness of theatre itself. He […]
May
01
Spring awakening – The Musical : Young adults and the freedom to make mistakes. (Theatre Review)
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Spring Awakening – The Musical ATYP Studio 1, The Warf 27 April – 14 May. You can grab your tickets here. Contrary to popular contemporary belief systems, passion and perversion are uniquely human in the animal kingdom. Therefore our budding interest in sexuality is the very terrain when humans detach themselves from nature. For human’s […]
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