Orphans Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre, 14 April to 9 May – You can grab tickets here. Photos – Rupert Reid One can’t question Orphans pedigree. Though it appears quaintly old-fashioned these days – perhaps even more so to a contemporary 2015 Sydney indie audience who may be more savvy than their American […]
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April
20
Orphans – Magic realism and the hyper-surreal father. (Theatre Review)
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April
19
Seeing Unseen – The greatest secrets hidden in the most unlikely places. (Theatre Review)
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Seeing Unseen 505 Theatre, 8 – 26 April You can grab your tickets here. The impact of technology on our lives is a theme that contemporary theatre has been grappling with. It’s difficult to describe the nature of the disjointedness we all experience in technology as it is coupled with a peculiar freedom we enjoy […]
April
19
Jerry And Tom – The character that has character. (Theatre review)
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Jerry and Tom Insomniac Theatre The Exchange Hotel, 9 April to 30 April, you can grab tickets here. Photos by GiGee Photography Note: Rick Cleveland has kindly left some great comments below, which greatly contribute to my review and reviewing in general. Please be sure to read them. Rick Cleveland wrote Jerry and Tom in […]
April
18
The Rocky Horror Show – Still the beast is feeding. (Theatre review)
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The Rocky Horror Show Sydney Lyric Theatre, April to 7 June You can grab tickets here. The Rocky Horror Show boasts many spurious distinctions but one it can consistently claim over the last forty-two years is a noteworthy ability to drive a censorious wedge between the critic and the audience. This ability to call forth […]
April
14
Doldrums – The Air Conditioned Nightmare over at The Essential. (Music review)
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Check out my Doldrums review over at The Essential: A problem common to all writers facing their terrifying confrontation with the abyss is to avoid the much-needed soul soothing until after the experience’s detail has been taken down. You can’t just talk about anxiety. It must accompany you in order for it to properly infuse […]
April
13
Simpson, J 202 – Genesian Theatre and the ANZAC spirit. (Theatre review)
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Simpson, J. 202 Genesian Theatre 11 April – 2 May. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Grant Fraser John jack Simpson Kirkpatrick is an intriguing fellow. Posthumously used rather shamelessly as a propaganda story, the real human story, the man behind the myth is, as to be expected, much more interesting than all […]
April
08
Mommy – Darling Xavier Dolan. (Film Review)
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Mommy is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here I am reposting this review, because it is opening mainstream tomorrow. Don’t miss this exceptional film. It’s scary stuff when a film praised as highly as Xavier Dolan’s Mommy exceeds expectations, but it does, and no matter how many reviews […]
April
08
GY!BE – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. Music from the muse. (Music Review)
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I had a glorious time reviewing Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, the latest offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. One of my favorite musical experiences of 2015 so far. Check it out over at The Essential: Since the 2012 release of Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend, Efrim Menuck has come out as an anarchist, which is […]
April
03
Courtney Barnett : Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit. (Music review)
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Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I just Sit. Courtney Barnett Milk Records The trick with the slacker style lyric is to take the mundane and give it a borderline spin that skims the surface from trite through to catchy clever, taking the listener constantly by surprise from the sparky initial engagement through to […]
April
02
The Notebook – Agota Kristof and a sensual, cold, cruel passion. (Book review)
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The Notebook Author: Agota Kristof Translator: Alan Sheridan Publisher: Grove/Atlantic Published first in French in 1986 and then translated into thirty languages after Kristof won the European prize for French literature, The Notebook (the first in a trilogy) is one of the most disturbing accounts of war-torn society because of its focus, not on the […]
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