Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; […]
August
10
Not About heroes – Carla Moore and the cry for a real civilization. (Theatre Review)
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August
09
Joan, Again – Paul Gilchrist and the weight of our personal narrative. (Theatre Review)
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Joan, Again Subtlenuance in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company Old Fitzroy Theatre August 5- 23 You can grab tickets here. The nature of the story and the narrative is at the heart of Paul Gilchrist’s excitingly experimental work Joan Again, a piece of theatre that takes the very bold and contemporary decision to pin […]
August
08
The Metropolitan Orchestra – Met Concert #3 (Music Review)
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It was an enormous joy for me to attend The Metropolitan Orchestra’s performance in June 2013 at the Balmain Town Hall, so when I was invited to attend their third concert in 2014, I was thrilled to give my yes and toddle along to the Eugene Goossens Hall on Saturday the 2nd of August. Like […]
August
05
Mr Kolpert – Pantsguys, Rope and the Albee in us all. (Theatre Review)
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Mr Kolpert Pantsguys Productions ATYP from 30 July to 16 August. You can grab your tickets here. Photography: Kate Williams Surely the thrill in the underlying current of misbehavior (tween smoking at its least, calculated murder at its best) lies in the aftermath. Rules and their consequences are made for three reasons: to prevent bad […]
August
04
Essential Awesomeness
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I’m writing for the new(ish) Melbourne E-Zine and amazing pod casting outfit The Essential as of today, when my inaugural post, a review of Naomi Punk’s Television Man went up. The Essential is: Presenting an Australian perspective on contemporary and classic cinema and music from Australia and around the world, The Essentialis a collective of […]
August
04
Four Places – The Agony and Ecstasy of Family. (Theatre Review)
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Four Places Outhouse Theatre Tap Gallery from July 29 to August 10. You can grab tickets here. Photographer – Richard Farland Photopgraphy Once upon a time, the children rising up in a mutinous power play against aged, mentally fragile parents was seen as an illicit act of deceit, a grab for the parental asset stash […]
August
01
Three Sisters – Anton Chekhov made “now” by SUDS. (Theatre review)
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Three Sisters 30 July to 9 August Sydney University Dramatic Society. You can grab tickets here. It is a very interesting thing to see a strong, large cast of exquisitely beautiful young people performing Anton Chekhov’s great existential tragedy, but even more interesting when they’re located in 2014 Sydney as a backdrop against a bitterly […]
July
29
Bessons Women Who Kick Ass – The Fifth Element (Film Review)
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So, on the heels of films as interesting and promising as La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue, Leon the Professional and Subway, Luc Besson comes up with what can only be described as a vanity project spawned from the days when it is easier to believe one is a genius (the early teen years) and […]
July
27
Bessons women who kick ass – Leon The professional (Film Review)
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It is typical of a ill-informed critic audience to miss the primary point of Luc Besson’s breakout bildungsroman that centres around a female protagonist coming of age story, but Leon: The Professional is so exceptionally well cast that fortunately the cast never miss Bessons point – either that or Besson has a talent for choosing an […]
July
26
Kvinden i buret (The Keeper of Lost Causes) – Dark Danish thrills. (Film review)
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The Scandie psych-thriller invasion of the new millenium continues with Kvinden i buret (The Keeper of Lost Causes), adapted this time from high-profile Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen ‘s novel of the same name first published in 2007 and then in 2011 in English. The film adaptation sees director Mikkel Norgaard with his second feature after the […]
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