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Earlier this year, Sam Strong’s production of Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes, which opened the new fortyfivedownstairs, not with a bang, but a whimper, proved that the playwright could survive even the most clumsy and uncomprehending of treatments. The play’s
I was going to open this review with a few words about Mirka Mora, the artist whose whimsical cherubs and mythological creatures adorn the walls of the restaurant bearing her name, but given the extent to which she and her
I have a friend, a former workmate who makes it his business to visit every Asian restaurant in Melbourne, who is forever lamenting what he perceives to be the city’s paucity of good Thai restaurants. Melbourne’s Thai food, my friend
“Food is family, family is life, life is everything.” – George Calombaris I had been excited about visiting The Press Club before I saw George Calombaris cook prosciutto-wrapped gorgonzola cannelloni on Ready, Steady Cook, that wonderful daytime cooking show hosted
Wild East is a play that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be: a nuanced comedy about corporate culture, a chamber drama about personal betrayal, or a riotous, slapdash cartoon. A better play would have been all three at
Enoteca Sileno was not what I had expected; I had, for some reason, expected less. (The moral of the story is to do your research.) Some decent bread and a hearty pork sausage risotto. An antipasto platter and a bowl
In more sense than one, Hélène Cixous’ The Perjured City Or, The Awakening of the Furies has history pulsing through its veins. On the one hand, it takes an event from the recent past – the administration of contaminated blood
The story of Conaci, aged seven, and Dirimera, aged ten, who were spirited away to Europe by a Benedictine missionary, Rosendo Salvado, in the mid-nineteenth century to be trained as Australia’s first indigenous monks, is arguably the first, forgotten chapter