This article was first written in March 2013 and revised three months later for publication on an online editorial website. It was never pu...

I have written about the story of Patyegarang and William Dawes on this blog before . It’s a beautiful story about language, friendship, tr...

One thing that never ceases to intrigue me about the tiny little Griffin stage is how malleable it is. No two productions ever feel quite ...

Over the past several years, the Australian Chamber Orchestra has played an annual multimedia concert in collaboration with a number of ren...

This is not an easy play to write about. Nor should it be. Of all the subjects and issues which can and remain taboo in the contemporary wo...

Written in 1995, Jez Butterworth’s Mojo is often credited with reviving the urban gangster genre, typified in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock an...

We are told Cain and Abel  is “a show about violence and reinventing history, made by women.” We are told Melbourne theatre-makers THE RAB...

From the promotional blurb and with a title like Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography , you could perhaps be forgiven for expecting, wel...

It has been often said that Shakespeare, with Titus Andronicus , had a Tarantino phase, but did Tarantino have a Shakespeare phase? This pr...

Sophocles’ Theban plays are among the all-time greatest stories in literature, and along with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the great...