Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” asks Lear.
“Lear’s shadow”, replies the fool.
THE SHADOW KING is the apt title of an adaptation of King Lear by Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor.
Set in Northern …
Fuckin’ excessive in four letter expletives, pharmaceutically profligate and big bladder testing in its running time, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is cinema onomatopoeia as it becomes its own subject, seduced by what its depicting, a Faustian bargain of a …
One of the perks of being the first play of the season is that you get to rehearse in the space.
No wonder director Stephen Colyer was pleased as punch when I spoke to him a week into rehearsals of …
Kiwi Scott Walker has gone north to Alaska to helm a true horror show, FROZEN GROUND (MA).
Sub zero is serial killer temperature and it’s definitely ice that’s coursing through Robert Hansen’s veins as he rapes, tortures and kills a …
If ever there was a cure for writer’s block, Mark Forsyth’s THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE comes as close as a cutthroat razor.
As William Shakespeare, writing as Thomas Edison, opined: 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, and Forsyth’s tome certainly takes …
A cat is the catalyst for the Cohen Brothers latest film, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, a fun filled frolic through the folk music scene of the Sixties.
A veteran sofa surfer, Llewyn’s latest lie-down has a feline who pussyfoots into fugitive …
Not since LARS AND THE REAL GIRL has there been such a venerable entertainment about virtual romance as HER (MA).
While Lars found his blow up doll on the internet, HER hero, Theodore, cuts to the chase and falls for …
There’s a billboard for another show in Sydney that has the quote “if only every night in the theatre could be as good”. It’s a quote worth purloining for the Pantsguys Griffin Independent production of Simon Stephens’ ON THE SHORE …
In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, Tom Hanks was charged with the rescue of a sole surviving sibling soldier following the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy.
In SAVING MR. BANKS, Tom Hanks is charged with preserving his promise to make …
A Cormac McCarthy quoting Cliff Hardy travels to the Top End in Peter Corris’ latest instalment, SILENT KILL (Allen & Unwin).
Initially hired as a bodyguard for a whistle blowing political aspirant, things go pear shaped after a paramedic impersonator …