The Lunchbox is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab tickets here. “Sometimes the wrong train can take you to the right destination.” It is impossible to imagine some of our contemporary Hollywood screen “overaged loverboy’s” such as Mel Gibson in What Women Want, Jack Nicholson in Something’s gotta Give or Woody […]
July
08
Of Monopoly and Women – Interview with Sascha Hall (Theatre interview)
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Of Monopoly and Women Brave New Word Theatre Company Exchange Hotel Balmain. You can grab tickets here. Tomorrow night, I am headed off to the opening night of Of Monopoly and Women. Following the sell out season of Dancing Naked in the Backyard, Brave New Word is back with its next original Aussie work, Of […]
July
07
La Ronde – Enigma and Arthur Schnitzler. (Theatre Review)
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La Ronde Enigma theatre company You can grab tickets here When Sigmund Freud told Arthur Schnitzler that what he’d struggled to convey in a lifetime was successfully summed up in the one hundred minutes of La Ronde, he cemented for Schnitzler a divisive point of reference that has rocked the theatre world ever since. With […]
July
07
Book of Days – Interview with director Elsie Edgerton-Till (Theatre Intereview)
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Book of Days New Theatre – season 8 July – 9 August Grab your tickets here. One of the more exciting Sydney July theatre openings is New Theatres production of Book of Days, directed by Elsie Edgerton-Till. Lanford Wilson wrote Book of Days fourteen years ago, and I confess, it’s a play that has been […]
July
04
Food – Steve Rodgers and that which we consume. (Theatre Review)
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Food Force Majeure and Riverside Theatre. Check touring dates here. You are what you eat. Or are you what eats away at you? In Food, Steve Rodgers examines our two most basic endurance needs, food and sex, bringing them together around an examination of personal history, asserting that what we have consumed forges who we […]
July
03
The Mercy Seat – Who are we when the world falls apart? (Theatre Review)
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The Mercy Seat Gentle Banana People in association with Sydney Independent Theatre Company Neil LaButes The Mercy Seat opens with a man sitting alone on a couch holding a ringing mobile phone. The apartment setting is shrouded in dust. Soon a woman enters, she takes the ringing phone from his hands and places it on […]
July
02
My name is Truda Vitz – Olivia Satchell and the memory of the unknown. (Theatre Review)
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My Name is Truda Vitz Tap Gallery June 25 to July 6 You can grab your tickets here. The bulk of our childhood memories are the stuff of legends. They are composed of blurs of things we saw tainted by responsive feelings and contained by the witness of the powerful other, parents, grandparents or older […]
July
01
Tim’s Vermeer – Penn and Teller and a colourful hobby. (SFF Film review)
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Tim’s Vermeer is currently showing at the Sydney Film festival You can grab your tickets here Penn and Teller are a pair of rather unpleasant professional “skeptics” who have made careers out of, first being magicians and tricking everyone, and second making a television show that cites everyone who opposes their conservative, capitalist agenda as […]
July
01
Interview with Steve Hopley, director of La Ronde. (Theatre Interview)
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LA RONDE IN THE ROUND Enigma presents LA RONDE By Arthur Schnitzler July 2 to 12, 2014 You can grab your tickets here. Ten couples. Ten scenes. A round dance of love, sex and infidelity. Written in Freud’s Vienna in 1897, Arthur Schnitzler’s psychological investigation of sex was never intended to be performed. After publication […]
June
24
20 Years Ago Today – The Lion King or Ferris Bueller takes over Kenya. (Film Review)
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In researching this post I watched The Lion King again, one of those films that has always seen me out of step with contemporary film culture because I just don’t get it, primarily due to its horrible xenophobia and its creepy Bambi meets Hamlet meets Moses meets Joseph with white impressions of “black” culture and […]
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