John Pollak did Arts and Law at Sydney uni. He practiced Law for a short while and went into business. He made too much money for his own good and today is not so much retired as having little to do. He plays tennis and carries the bags for his wife when she goes overseas. When prompted and badgered he does the occasional review.
He goes to Ethiopia every now and then and where, with Professor McGuigan of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he is bringing the Sodis Program for safer water to the Tigray region.
When seen in public he is often hunched over a cup of coffee and a foccacio whilst immersed in a diabolical suduko. Or he is driving his wife to bridge.
Have you ever considered the fate of the humble childhood toy “Jack in the box” ?
Well, Rosemary Dobson has:
“He crouches low and supplicant/His elbows knocking on the wood…/He waits the tapping at the locks/He hears …
This Concert was at the City Recital Hall last Thursday at 7.30 pm. For those who have not been there it is quite an unusual venue. Whereas the Opera House sits grandly on Bennelong Point at night its shells like …
In was in the late 1960’s that Baader Meinhof Gang in Germany found its roots. Initially they were a student organisation dedicated to , amongst other things, stopping the Vietnam War and toppling oppressive regime of the Shah of Iran …
Theatre can be interesting sometimes because sometimes it can challenge one’s idea of what actually is theatre. THE HANSARD MONOLOGUES : AGE OF ENTITLEMENT which we saw last night does this. It a recitation of some selected parliamentary speeches in …
Production photography by Michael Snow,
This is a marvellous play by David Auburn about courage, doubt, faith, love, and genius. The play has won a Pulitzer prize, the New York Drama Critics award and a Tony award. The current New …
Set in England in the late eighteenth century the title of this movie LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP is deliciously ironical because it is about just the opposite. But do not be deterred. This movie is full of wit, epithet and epigram. …
This is a short revue style performance on the first floor of the Harold Park Hotel ..just over an hour.
Nathan Lentern plays a very credible Kevin Rudd, capturing his unique blend of ockerism, condescension and cynicism. He also does …
Featured photo- Aerial Artistry, Pic by Jesse Jaco. Photos above- 1. It actually snows inside EL CIRCO BLANC. Photo supplied by Slide. 2. Live vocals accompany a romantic aerial act”. Photo credit Petr Sedlacik. 3. Brioche pastry filled with layers …
Production photography by Mark Banks.
Tucked away in inner city Kent steet is the Genesian Theatre. With its luxuriant velvet curtain and plush red seats, it is amongst the most elegant and intimate of Sydney’s theatres. Thomas Hardys’ “Far …
Above – Isobel Dickson and Rebecca Clay in Wayne Tunks Flame Trees. Production photography by Isobel Markus-Dunworth
”Who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway?” decries the pamphlet that I grabbed before going in to see FLAME TREES at the Depot Theatre …