Author Archives: lisathatcher

March 31

Dior and I – Frédéric Tcheng and the gentle revolution. (Film review)

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  With Dior and I, Frédéric Tcheng creates a documentary that benefits from a little (only a little) close to the biz info. When Raf Simons became the head designer at Dior in 2012, the decision was controversial because of the legacy left by John Galliano, who had transformed the famous fashion house dramatically between 1996 […]

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March 30

Music Reviews at The Essential

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I’ve reviewed some great music at The Essential recently, so check out some of the links below: Sleater-Kinney: No Cities To Love Through the mire of contemporary left wing labeling and the burdens of consciousness for a myriad of social ailments, Sleater-Kinney’s strength is their ability to do their thing and trust themselves. Forging a […]

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March 30

Love Is Strange – Ira Sachs, love and the abyss. (Film review)

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My review for Love is Strange resides over at The Essential. A scene toward the end of Love is Strange sees protagonists Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) out on a much-needed date, and makes the bold statement regarding the aesthetic trajectory of writer/director Ira Sachs. The two married men have just attended a […]

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March 30

Infinitely Polar Bear – Maya Forbes grasps the infinite real. (Film Review)

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While Maya Forbes’ film is openly autobiographical (it depicts a period in her life when her mother moved out to attend New York Business school and their bipolar father moved in to care for them) it has a broader and very interesting statement to make about economic barriers and the impact that might have on a […]

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March 27

A little night music – Sydney University Musical Theatre Ensemble and the very beautiful. (Theatre Review)

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A Little Night Music MUSE (Sydney University theatre Ensemble) Seymour Centre from 25 – 28 March You can grab tickets here Despite its complexity and the multifarious delicate nuances, A Little Night Music has become a bit of a favourite for young musical ensembles to cut their teeth on, almost acting as a rite of […]

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March 24

When the Rain Stops falling – New Theatre and the exquisite tragedy. (Theatre Review)

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  When The Rain Stops Falling New Theatre 17 March to 18 April You can grab your tickets here Image credits Bob Seary In When The Rain Stops Falling, Andrew Bovell crafts such interesting characters, that he can give them relatively obtuse things to say in a theatrical structure that works against its own narrative […]

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March 24

Fallout – Smoking Gum Theatre and the time after the end. (Theatre Review)

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Fall Out SmokingGum Theatre 18 – 27 March, Exchange Hotel Balmian. You can grab your tickets here We have learnt to live with the promise of our unnatural demise. It’s quite phenomenological in contemporary society that there will be some current ‘scare’ that has some basis in fact, but for the most part is highly […]

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March 19

The Big Funk – Suspicious women, grease and baths. (Theatre Review)

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The Big Funk Suspicious Woman Productions Tap Gallery – March 11 – 21 You can grab your tickets here John Patrick Shanley is definitely a romantic. His heroes always have to perform a grand sweeping gesture that involves some sort of love connection to resolve the problem a residue of build up from the difficulties […]

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March 18

My Mother and Other Catastrophes – Rivka Hartman and the pleasure and pain of family. (Theatre Review)

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My Mother and Other Catastrophes  A play reading by Rivka Hartman Watch for tickets here. The way generations pass down their pain is obviously of great interest to anyone with parents, but particularly to great Sydney playwright Rivka Hartman, who examines this through the eyes of Jewish women in My Mother and Other Catastrophes. In […]

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March 17

And Now To Bed – Subtelnuance talks about sex, bay-bee. (Theatre Review)

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And Now To bed Subtelnuance Theatre Company Level 4, The Kings Cross Hotel. You can grab your tickets here. One of my ex’s was terrified of sex. Not just sex with me (!) but of the devouring intimacy of it, the reckless feeling of being out of control and the teetering on an abyss that […]

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