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May 14

His Mothers Voice – bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company and a cast of millions. (Theatre Review)

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His Mothers Voice bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company ATYP 30/4/14 through to 17/5/14 You can grab your tickets here.  In Mao Zedong’s 1937 essay “On Contradiction” he further examines the theories of Marx and Lenin around dialectical materialism and the idea of the contradictions that, for Marx, provided the impetus for further human evolution but for Mao, […]

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May 10

Skinny blogging

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Hello lovely readers, Apologies for skinny blogging of late – I had a particularly heavy Tax quarter with my day job (that is still ongoing), some big family commitments and then on top of it all I got a rather nasty dose of that flu that is going around, that took me quite a few […]

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April 24

Construction of the Human Heart – Ross Mueller and the passion for theatre. (Theatre Review)

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Construction of the Human Heart Apocalypse Theatre Company Tap Gallery Theatre April 16 – May 3. Grab tickets here.  Photos by Matthew Duchesne Who is theatre for and what is theatre for? These are the central questions at the heart of Ross Mueller’s beautiful Australian play, Construction of the Human Heart. Written around ten years […]

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April 15

Lisa Chat’s with Chris Naylor, writer of Dancing Naked in the Backyard. (Theatre Interview)

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Dancing Naked in the Backyard Interview with C.J Naylor April 15 – 26 Tap Gallery You can buy tickets here.   I managed to catch Chris at The World Bar a week or so ago, and we sat down to a glass of red wine each and a chat about Dancing Naked In The Backyard, […]

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April 08

Lisa chats with Emily Calder, Writer of “Cough” (Theatre article)

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Cough – written by Emily Calder Performed by Unhappen Theatre Company. 10 April – 20 April 107 Projects (107 Redfern Street, Redfern) “I say please because it makes people give me things.” Emily and I met in a small cafe in the middle of Newtown. It was a lovely meeting, feeling more like two friends […]

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April 08

Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Short List

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The short list has been announced for the Bailey’s Prize For Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) and the list is very impressive, all the more when you see whodidn’t make the leap from the long list: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah Hannah Kent – Burial Rites Jhumpa Lahiri – The Lowland Audrey Magee – The […]

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March 25

Lisa Chat’s with Mark Westbrook director of Stitching – Pt 1 (theatre article)

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 Stitching  by Anthony Neilson Little Spoon Theatre Company Tap gallery 26 March through to 12 April You can buy your tickets here.  I have neither  seen nor read Anthony Neilson’s confronting 2002 play Stitching, so I am greatly looking forward to the Little Spoon presentation running at the Tap Gallery from March 26 through to […]

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March 10

Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) – Alain Resnais short film on Memory that predicts our need for Big Data.

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Alain Resnais had a lifetime obsession with time and memory, two of the great pillars of what makes us human. This film, made in 1956 and only twenty minutes long, is an excellent vignette in Resnais evocative and thrilling film making (he brings to perfect life why we get excited when we walk into a […]

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March 08

Stack – Shameless Self Promotion

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Just a remainder that my book of short stories  Stack, made free through Lulu by my publisher Les Editions du Zaporogue here, is available to be hated, admired, poured over, loathed, loved, lost or censured at the will and whim of all. In the manner of all cerebral seductresses, I have decided to shamelessly tease […]

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March 01

R.I.P. Alain Resnais

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Alain Resnais died, aged ninety-one, leaving the world a sadder place for the knowing we will never see another one of his films. He has made two of my personal favorite movies that fall in my “top ten” (if such a thing can possibly exist) and they are Last Year At Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon […]

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