Orphans Red Line Productions The Old Fitz Theatre, 14 April to 9 May – You can grab tickets here. Photos – Rupert Reid One can’t question Orphans pedigree. Though it appears quaintly old-fashioned these days – perhaps even more so to a contemporary 2015 Sydney indie audience who may be more savvy than their American […]
Tag Archives: Tom Waits
April
20
Orphans – Magic realism and the hyper-surreal father. (Theatre Review)
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November
13
Seven Psychopaths Review – Martin McDonagh goes cute n’ clever on the art of the screenplay.
posted by lisathatcher
Seven Psychopaths is one of those really cute and really clever takes on the Hollywood screenplay. I have to say up front that Martin McDonagh (who writes this as well as directs it) is giving Tarentino the elbow here in a film that is sort of homage sort of pay-out, sort of frustrated attempt to […]
Gavin Bryars: “The Sinking of the Titanic” and “Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet” – Pure beauty.
posted by lisathatcher
There are several versions of the extraordinary work of Gavin Bryars Sinking of the titanic. The latest (as far as I can see) came out in 2008, and I ‘only’ have the 1976 copy that is settled in with Jesus Blood Never Failed Me as track two. I have to get my hands on a copy of the […]
Bad as Me: Tom Waits and the new jazz.
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Bad as Me is Tom Waits fist studio album in seven years and the great news for Tom Waits fans is that it is a proper and decent return to style. On Bad as Me we have the return of that tinkly piano we love so much. There is also more guitar work than more […]
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