Author Archives: lisathatcher

September 30

Keira Daley V’s The 90’s – Keira Daley in a gangsta paradise. (Sydney Fringe Festival Cabaret Review)

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I seem to have my timing completely off when it comes to attending Keira Daley’s wonderful cabaret shows – feeling like the nerd she waxes so lyrically about, I managed to catch the absolute final performance of LadyNerd a couple of weeks back, and then when I saw her great follow up show, Keira Daley […]

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September 30

Songs From The End of the World – Andrew Finegan and the swan song. (Sydney Fringe Festival Cabaret Review)

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There’s been a lot of talk about the end of the world in recent times, or rather, since the dawn of time.  It seems human creatures love to be filled with fear, and will even counsel each other to “live each day as if it were your last” as if this will somehow erase the […]

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September 29

Rush – Ron Howard and racing car porn. (Film Review)

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Formula One racing is about money.  Nothing else. Besides being able (and wealthy enough) to win or consistently grade high in the lower classes, the racing drivers, constructor teams, track officials, organisers, and circuits are required to be holders of valid Super Licences which fall into the category of many thousand dollars per season. The […]

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September 28

Fully Committed – Alex Butt and Nick Curnow juggle their way to brilliance. (Sydney FF Theatre Review)

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“I’ve been on hold for so long I forgot who I called.” I was out with a group of friends recently, at a very fancy restaurant.  One of my friends, a very polite, gentle refined sort of woman, has many different allergies, and despite calling ahead, for some reason the message hadn’t gotten through to […]

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September 26

Narrow as the Line – Nathan Finger writes, directs and gets you thinking. (Sydney Fringe Festival Theatre review)

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One of the quaint things about the cry of the rich that they are winning the battle of the survival of the fittest (an old Banker/business cry left over from the end of the last century – think people like Jeffery Skilling and Rupert Murdoch) is that the “fitter” someone gets by these standards, the […]

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September 23

Penelope – Kate Gaul brings the audience deep into the Enda Walsh pool. (Theatre Review)

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Penelope is such a large play, so sprawling in its scope, that (surprisingly for a writer) Enda Walsh ends up leaving a great deal open for the assimilation of director, actor and audience, restraining himself to the grandiose words, relinquishing much of the structure and message to others. Walsh always likes to examine humans trapped […]

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September 23

Fat Girl – Catherine Breillat crushes the coming-of-age flick. (Film Review)

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I get so bored From Six to Ten From Ten to Six From Six to Six. All my life, both day and night I get so bored If only I could find Alive or dead, a man, a body, An Animal, I don’t mind, Just to dream As an antidote to the tiresome coming-of-age films where […]

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September 22

Chasing Kurt: From the inside – Deep House goes personal. (Music Review)

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Build my own desire, Set my soul on fire, Music brings me back to my soul. With a fondness (conscious or otherwise) for deconstruction, Chasing Kurt land on the scene with their much anticipated first album “From the Inside.”  Musically, this is an intensely personal album, the three members finding a fusion in an environment […]

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September 22

Julie Anne and Julie are Bad in Bed, or So I Read (On A Toilet Stall Door) – (Sydney Fringe F Theatre Review)

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When I walked out of Julie Anne and Julie are Bad in Bed, or so I read (On a Toilet Stall Door) – how’s that for a title – I commented to the good folk of the PACT theatre there that night, that the most experimental works I’d seen at The Sydney Fringe this year […]

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September 22

The Unstoppable, Unsung Story of Shakey M: Rowena Hutson,’Parky’ and Joy. (Sydney Fringe F Theatre Review)

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I pause and ask myself about the role of art in my life regularly, but I almost never stop to ask myself why I laugh and what makes me laugh. Aside from that nervous snigger we apply in awkward social situations (like every time I’m with my family).  We have lots of “scientific reasons” for […]

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