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For a performer whose most famous turns have been as Alexander Downer and Shane Warne, The Threepenny Opera’s Macheath may not strike one as an appropriate follow-up. Unless one takes into consideration that this performer’s Downer was a fishnet-stockinged, show-stealing diva
Oscar Redding and Jonathan Auf Der Heide are adamant. The only social value of their work is as a useful corrective. “As far as mainstream content goes,” Redding says, “it seems that there’s a lot of thought Sexual drive is
Picasso would have loved Olwen Fouéré. With features that that fall somewhere between beautiful and handsome — think Joan Allen crossed with Terrence Stamp — the Irish-French actor exhibits all the qualities of one of the great modernist’s Weeping Women:
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
Like most professional musicians, Natsuko Yoshimoto has a story to tell about how she came across her instrument, a story characterised, as most are, by a healthy dose of serendipity. “I’ve had it for 13 years,” she says of her 258-year-old
There is a tendency, in profiles of Christopher Hitchens, for the bestselling atheist and militant author to be defined solely in relation to his high-profile targets and the high-velocity force at which he hits them. Very rarely is it elucidated
Lally Katz is pondering the possibility of growing up. “Every now and then I’ll try it,” she muses down the phone line. “I’ll tell myself, ‘I’ve got to grow up, I’ve got to grow up’, but it never works. There
The dimly lit rehearsal space is immediately disconcerting, draped in bubble wrap as a crime scene is draped in plastic sheeting, and populated with thuggish-looking characters. Above these figures, a television screen is streaming real-time images of them from another