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)
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
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, […]
April
08
Lisa chats with Emily Calder, Writer of “Cough” (Theatre article)
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
April
08
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Short List
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
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 […]
March
10
Toute la mémoire du monde (1956) – Alain Resnais short film on Memory that predicts our need for Big Data.
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
March
08
Stack – Shameless Self Promotion
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
March
01
R.I.P. Alain Resnais
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
February
03
R.I.P Philip Seymour Hoffman.
posted by lisathatcher
It seems inappropriate to watch, think about, or speak of films and film making on the day Philip Seymour Hoffman dies of a drug overdose. Grief can appear at it’s cheapest when wrapped in the tinny platitudes of an irrational outpouring for a person never known, never met and no more special than the hundreds of […]
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