Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Kate Gaul seems to be the go to gal when it comes to staging Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s plays in Sydney.
Following on fromThe New Electric Ballroom at The Stables and Penelope at Tap Gallery, Gaul mounts MISTERMAN at …
Alexander is the eldest of several children living in a closed-off compound on the outskirts of a town. Within its walls Alexander has been raised by a loner patriarch called Gregori, his mother Susanna and a group of women – …
A damned sight better than the damnedly unsightly and uninsightful recent rendering of Madame Bovary by Sophie Barthes, GEMMA BOVERY marks the second time Gemma Arterton has played a character created by Posy Simmonds, the first being her fine characterisation …
Literary allusions to Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll are part of the puzzle to Aidan Fennessy’s THE HOUSE ON THE LAKE.
Lawyer, David Rail, wakes up to find himself in a hospital with forensic psychologist, Alice.
“I’m here to …
A quest to bring the past to task, right a wrong, WOMAN IN GOLD is the remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family.
Sixty years after she …
Boasting an amazing pre-title sequence, especially in the light of the recent French Alps aviation tragedy, WILD TALES is an anthology work which has revenge as its thematic thread.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards …
Mythed it by that much! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is so full of both strident and subliminal myth legend proto, arche and stereotype that it can’t help inveigle the viewer in a dream, albeit a bad one, a nightmare of …
Now that we are awash with the placenta of publicity for the latest royal birth, let’s flash backward to the past, VE day 1945 with two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, achingly desperate to get out among the people to …
The name Dolores means sorrows. It derives from the Spanish moniker for Virgin Mary of Sorrows.
The titular Dolores of Edward Allan Baker’s DOLORES is no virgin, but she certainly is a sorry so and so, a perpetual sucker to …
“Shame is psychic extortion. Shame lies. Shame a woman and she will believe she is fundamentally wrong, organically delinquent. The only confidence she will have will be in her failures. You will never convince her otherwise.” says Doctor Messerli, the …