20 October 2025

STUART COUPE : SAFFRON INCORPORATED : THE FIRST KING OF THE CROSS AND FIFTY YEARS OF SEX, MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM

Eli Beverley-Schack / 20 October 2025

Whenever you position entertainers performing in neon-lit clubs and pubs, chances are there will be a wannabe gangster or two hanging about. Selling drugs and sex has always been a conduit for making quick do-re-mi, with potential customers invariably …

Literature

DAVID CANNANDINE : THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY : ENCAPSULATES THE SEISMIC SHIFTS IN BRITISH SOCIETY

Eli Beverley-Schack / 20 October 2025

At the outset of 1870, the British Aristocracy could rightly consider them the most fortunate people on earth. They held the lion’s share of land, wealth, and power in the world’s greatest Empire. However, by the end of the 1930s …

Theatre

DAYTIME DEEWANE AT LENNOX THEATRE RIVERSIDE THEATRES PARRAMATTA : A VERY WELL DESERVED STANDING OVATION

Carolyn Neumann / 20 October 2025

’Deewane’ in Hindi translates as ‘crazy or mad about’ and the Riverside National Theatre of Parramatta performance of Azan Ahmed’s play DAYTIME DEEWANE delivers all the high energy, movement and music suggested by the title.

It’s set in a …