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That “reality television” is an oxymoron is fairly common knowledge. From Survivor and Big Brother to MasterChef and The Amazing Race, the “reality” of the genre has always taken a backseat to the “television” of it. The truism that observation alters the thing observed is true enough of cinéma verite
More and more, and perhaps in response to the glut of performance in fringe festivals, a smaller, more focused and, most importantly, curated kind of festival of independent works is emerging. In Australia we have Sydney’s Imperial Panda and Tiny
When Tom Zubrycki took to the stage at the Australian International Documentary conference earlier this year, to accept the Stanley Hawes Award for his contribution to the Australian documentary sector, he did so with his crosshairs trained on two of
For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Todd Haynes’s I’m Not There (2007), it was impossible not to sit through Benito Di Fonzo’s epically-titled play The Chronic Ills of Robert Zimmerman: AKA Bob Put the important people in your life
The Hayloft Project’s Simon Stone has, over the last three or four years, been making a bit of a name for himself as one of the country’s foremost interpreters of late 19th and early 20th century theatre, with Wedekind, Chekhov,
This is William Yang’s tenth performance piece and his well-honed signature style—a mix of anecdotal monologue and personal slideshow, punctuated with the occasional burst of live music—has never felt more elegant or intimate. An eyewitness account of Sydney’s cultural scene
Sydney has long been known as the queer capital of Australia—indeed, some would argue, the queer capital of the southern hemisphere—and the city’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, currently in full swing, remains the largest event of its type in
Written by award-winning Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, The Beauty Queen of Leenane is the first production of the year from the Sydney Theatre Company’s educational wing, which last year brought us a worthy production of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an