The Dapto Chaser Griffin Theatre from 1 – 25 July You can grab your tickets here. It has been a highlight of my 2015 theatre-attending year, to see some beautifully written Australian works. Post cultural cringe Aussie aesthetics of the sort that would have Patrick White giggling and dancing about at the pretentious after show […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
July
12
The Dapto Chaser – Mary Rachel Brown and the importance of language. (Theatre review)
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July
12
30 Depictions of Female Genius in Film – Articles at The Essential
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I know! I hate lists! I still do. I actually wrote this one for The Essential because it turns out, the way intelligence is depicted in popular culture actually affects real life perceptions of ability. The way female intelligence is depicted in movies has a direct impact on the way they are looked over for […]
July
12
Of Mice and Men – Sport for Jove bring an almost perfect producton to life (Theatre Review)
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Of Mice and Men Seymour Centre, Reginald theatre 9 – 25 July You can grab your tickets here. It is a testament to the great writer, John Steinbeck that Of Mice and Men can be told so often, can still move so powerfully and can retain its precarious balance refusing to fall helplessly into melodrama […]
July
11
Magic Mike XXL – Unapologetically one for the ladies. (Film Review)
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“It’s not bro time it’s show time – are you guys ready?” I plead with my friends to spare a thought for the heterosexual feminist. Falling in love with a man always demands a dose of Stockholm syndrome and for most hetro-identified feminists, myself included, anger is your only defense, your only friend and your […]
July
07
Men – Brendan Cowell and the problems of a man’s man. (Theatre Review)
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Men Old Fitz Theatre 30 June to 25 July You can grab your tickets here. Men is by far the stand out production in the successful first year of the new management at The Old Fitz theatre. A play that made its debut treading the same boards fifteen years ago, time has been good to […]
July
04
The Diary of Anne frank – Sam Thomas and the choice of love over fear. (Theatre Review)
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The Diary of Anne Frank New Theatre 9 June – 11 July You can grab your tickets here. In her notes to this production of The Diary of Anne Frank currently playing at The New Theatre in Newtown, Sam Thomas writes: “Sadly, the play’s underlying themes of discrimination, intolerance and the scapegoating of minorities are […]
June
29
30 Years ago today – The Terminator (Film review)
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I published this review in 2014 on the 30th anniversary of The Terminator. Republishing now, due to the endless rise of the sequal… Los Angeles: 2029 AD The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. […]
June
27
This is not Mills and Boon – 505 Theatre’s Fresh Works (Theatre Review)
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This is Not Mills And Boon Old 505 Theatre 23-28 June You can grab your tickets here. Sometimes its difficult to know if we talk about sex all the time or not at all. After all, what is sex? It has been broken down and defined by science, psychology, psychoanalysis, art, pornography, politics, law, advertising, […]
June
23
Memory – 505 Theatres Fresh Works
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Memory Old 505 Theatre / Fresh Works Fresh Works is currently on at The Old 505 theatre. You can grab tickets here. Interactive theatre is one of those little life experiences that can leave you with a sudden shortness of breath, grasping at your chest as your head screams “oh dear god – not me!” […]
June
20
Being Norwegian – Brevity salutes those of questionable origins. (Theatre Review)
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Being Norwegian Brevity theatre Company at The Old Fitz theatre 9-21 June. You can grab your tickets here. David Greig has made a name for himself by being a prolific theatre writer from whom the themes of (anti)nationality, displacement and globalisation have emerged almost by accident. He has become a purveyor of modern themes as […]
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