Fucking Men New Theatre for Mardi Gras 6 February to 10 March 2018 You can grab your tickets here. Images: Bob Seary A popular notion stands that monogamists are repressed and those who refuse monogamy are somehow free. This idea is underpinned by the mythology that desire is free and natural and not the result of […]
February
09
Fucking Men – The complications of sexual repression. (Theatre Review)
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February
05
Mother – Daniel Keene and the radical refusal of judgement. (Theatre Review)
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Mother Belvoir theatre, January 24 – February 11. You can grab your tickets here. Images by Brett Boardman There is a time with all passions when they are merely fatalities, when they drag their victim down with the weight of their folly and then again later when they are ‘spiritualized.’ Traditionally we have been at […]
February
01
Blind Tasting – The beautiful errors of mankind. (Theatre Review)
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Blind Tasting Subtlenuance Theatre Company The Old 505 Theatre, You can grab your tickets here. Recollection is the act of placing us before life and before experience as if we are standing before a painting slowly revealed, displaying an event in a certain way that is not exact but almost exactly the way we lived […]
January
17
Jack Data – Lisa chats with Ruth Bell. (Theatre Interview)
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Jack Data is playing at the 505 Theatre as part of their wonderful Fresh Works Program. You can grab your tickets here. I had a wonderful time constructing my questions for Ruth Bell. This renewed interest in fembots (and now mascbots) is a writers fantasy of sci fi meets 1960’s spy thrillers. This new […]
January
16
There Will Be A Climax – Life’s meaningless given meaning. (Theatre Review)
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There Will be a Climax The Company with Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre from 3 Jan to 3 Feb. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Robert Catto A directive by Nietzsche taught us to re-examine cruelty. Almost everything about higher culture, he exhorts us, is somehow based in cruelty. “That which constitutes […]
January
13
Sorting Out Rachel – Lisa Chats with David Williamson (Theatre Interview)
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Sorting Out Rachael is at the Ensemble Theatre from 19 January to 17 March. You can grab your tickets here. My personal history with David Williamson’s plays have been chequered. As a young student of literature I was a passionate fan, taking great delight in his portrayal of all things Australian, grateful for his wit […]
January
13
Green Day American Idiot – American punk-lite at its best. (Theatre Review)
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Green Day’s American Idiot Sydney Opera House – Concert Hall January 11 – 14. You can grab your tickets here. Being a fan of hard core punk, I never liked Green Day. Americanized watered down punk-lite, they were a mish mash of decent riffs tied together with THAT song ensuring no one could have the […]
January
12
Fag/Stag – Nihilism and the cult of youth. (Theatre Review)
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Fag/Stag Griffin Theatre Company and The Last Great Hunt. Stables Theatre, 10 – 27 January. You can grab your tickets here. Socrates, the father of all philosophers, was condemned to death on the charge of ‘corrupting youth.’ In may ways this has laid the foundation for the corruption of youth as a pre-requisite for change […]
January
11
My Name Is Jimi – Subtle poking at a white anxiety. (Theatre Review)
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My Name is Jimi Belvoir Theatre 15 – 21 January. You can grab your tickets here. Theatre is, grammatically, what makes us see. Rather, the theatre is that which exposes what is usually hidden. Theatre makes visible the invisible. In this sense, the representation of culture from the kwod of Wagadagam by Jimi Bani exposes […]
January
05
The Wizard of Oz – Basking in the warm glow of nostalgia. (Theatre Reiew)
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The Wizard of Oz The Capitol Theatre, 30 Dec 2017 to 4 Feb 2018 You can gab your tickets here. The word ‘nostalgia’ comes from two Greek roots: nóstos (“return home”) and ἄλγος, álgos (“longing”). It can be defined as longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a […]
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