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27/07/2013
The reality of television: Griffin’s Beached
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At eighteen years old, and weighing over 400 kilograms, Arthur (Arty) is the world’s heaviest teenager. With his gastric bypass surgery sch...
26/07/2013
Nightmares in white: Belvoir's Persona
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Belvoir’s presentation of Adena Jacobs’ theatrical reimaging of Persona is a hard pill to swallow. First performed by Fraught Outfit in Me...
19/07/2013
Her-story: New Theatre's Top Girls
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Written in 1982 when Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her game following the Falklands War, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls was an incen...
15/07/2013
Countdown to ignition: subtlenuance’s Rocket Man
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Which child doesn’t, at some point or another, dream of reaching the stars? It’s an idea that’s been floating around the place lately, for ...
24/06/2013
All the little lights: Griffin Independent & Just Visiting's This Is Where We Live
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On the bare Griffin stage, there’s a little bit of magic that happens every time an audience enters the space, every time the lights go do...
16/06/2013
Broken mirrors: STC's The Maids
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I thought perhaps this time Benedict Andrews’ mise en scène would make sense, that his staging techniques and or Effects would be justifie...
12/06/2013
It’s all Greek to me: Bell Shakespeare’s Phèdre
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Untranslatable is a word often used to describe Racine ’s plays, we are told in the program to Bell Shakespeare’s latest production, Phèdre...
02/06/2013
More life: Belvoir’s Angels in America, Parts One and Two
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It’s one of the biggest plays of the late twentieth century, perhaps one of the last entries in the American canon, one of the newest class...
25/05/2013
Clash over the classics: A perspective on the adaptations vs. new works debate
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There’s an interesting article in the Review section of today’s The Weekend Australian , about adaptations and their prevalence in Aust...
11/05/2013
Night at the museum: Griffin’s The Bull, The Moon and the Coronet of Stars
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As many a child does, I loved mythology, and all the many intricacies of which god sired who with whom, who did what where; all the gods, ...
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