What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions are daily tortured Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance In keeping its humanity repressed And for once you must try not to shriek the facts

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The much-anticipated follow-up to The Hayloft Project’s Spring Awakening, which was widely and correctly considered one of last year’s best productions, Simon Stone’s Chekhov Re-Cut: Platonov not only meets the expectations one might have had for it but thoroughly exceeds

Neither of the short politically-minded plays that comprise Welcome Stranger’s This Is Good Advice is as thematically challenging as it might like to think it is. There is a certain predictability to the angry satire with which Caryl Churchill’s This

I like Chapel Off Chapel. I like making my way down there: the train ride to Prahran, walking up Greville Street, wishing I had a booking at Chez Olivier or Fog. Admittedly, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Chapel

And so dystopia inches ever closer. In what might be perceived as a culture-wide riposte to the atrocities of the times, books like Andrew McGahan’s Underground and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, films like Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men and James

Easy Ryder (Cathy Kohlen) is not a well woman. With her unfulfilled longing and doe-eyed vulnerability, the improbably named titular character of Fiona Sprott’s monologue-cum-cabaret is the woman feminism left behind. That a woman must define herself in relation to