“He’s not bad. He’s just an ordinary person.” In post-political correctness days, becoming a victim and being a victim are, surprisingly, at opposite ends of the pop psychological rainbow. Victimhood has a timeline that is defined (as Lacan would say) by the “big Other” – that is we don’t know how long you are allowed […]
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November
07
An Ordinary Person – Robert Allan and the pervasive stigma of the victim. (Theatre Review)
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November
04
Daisy Pulls It Off – Genesian Theatre remembers Angela Brazil. (Theatre Review)
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It’s easy to forget, all these (feminist) years later how important to girls and to literature in general Angela Brazil was. Denise Deegan, a play write in her sixties (today) would have been conscious of the impending death of the british school girl books as a genre, and surely this influences her decision to write […]
October
29
Hay Fever – Noel Coward, The New Theatre, and the joy of the Blisses. (Theatre Review)
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Theatre legend has it that Noel Coward’s Hay Fever, and Noel Coward himself, stopped being popular with the rise of play writes such as Harold Pinter in the 1950’s, largely because funny was not seen to equal deep or complex. And yet, after a revival of Hay Fever in the 1960’s (the play was written […]
October
25
The Good, The Bad and the Lawyer – Tony Laumberg satirizes the Australian Upper Middle Class. (Theatre Review)
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An underbelly of debate – I wouldn’t say “rages”, perhaps “whispers” is a better word – its way around Australian society occasionally regarding the modes and methods of our own personal brand of introspective satire. This debate centers around a pre occupation we have with satirizing our country folk (think Crocodile Dundee), our immigrants (the […]
October
07
King Lear: 2 PLayers / 60 Minutes – Shakespere expanded into the unspoken. (Theatre Review)
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, […]
October
02
Singled Out – Augusta Supple and the ecstasy of alone. (Theatre Review)
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The question of living alone is a very modern one. Not that people haven’t lived alone before, but this is the first time in recorded history that human creatures, on mass are choosing to live alone. In Paris, more than half the households contain single people, and in Stockholm this figure rises to sixty percent. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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