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Beyond Criticism

I'm biased because she's my friend, but Jana is the best writer I know, on theatre or anything else. Critically incisive, breathtakingly lyrical and unshamedly personal. Read her and weep: That...

Just On a Basic Level

Andrew Denton and Jerry Senifeld, Enough Rope, ABC TV, November 26, 2007: ANDREW DENTON: What was it about [George Burns] you wanted to pay tribute to? JERRY SEINFELD: He is a master of enjoying...

I Had Blood In My Eyes

In lieu of posts about theatre, cinema, visual art and other things, which I swear are coming soon...

Fell In Love With a Girl

Michel Gondry, Fell In Love With a Girl, 2001

A Review in Images II

Teatre Lliure, European House: Hamlet's Prologue Without WordsRear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

Andronicus

TITUS ANDRONICUS: What do you do when twenty-one of your sons have been killed in a battle you've killed the twenty-second in a fit of pique your daughter has been raped and her hands cut off and her...

It's Not Over

Jana Perkovic, 'someone in Zagreb will be going grrrrrrrrrrreeen with envy', mono no aware: In fact, what's most compelling about the performance is its ability to glean most spontaneous audience...

Enrol Now

Nick Parkin, 'Enrolled to vote?', Election Tracker: When the Federal Government pushed its controversial Electoral Integrity Act through the Senate last year, some feared that the youth vote could be...

Utterly Ropable

Ms Fits, 'This is just ridiculous now', Reasons You Will Hate Me: Lady: Good morning, Prime Minister's office. Me: Hello, I was wondering if you could help me out. I was just wanting to know what the...

Pouring Acid on the Social Fabric

Andrew Bartlett, 'Some Australians are more equal than others', The Bartlett Diaries: There are few things more socially corrosive and politically unacceptable in my view than engaging in deliberate,...