Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

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unsound: a must see!

The new award-winning Australian LGBTQ+ film UNSOUND will be screening exclusively in Sydney at Dendy Newtown from today , March 18 with Descriptive Open Captions.

A special Q&A screening will be held on the opening night, Monday 18th March at …

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crisis: a thinking persons thriller

Like Steven Soderbergh’s celebrated classic, Traffic, CRISIS is a multi layered story about the impact of illicit trade in drugs.

Usually, drug dealing thrillers concern cocaine or heroin or maybe marijuana, but CRISIS concerns itself with the out of control …

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french exit: pfeiffer, france and a feline

Think Auntie Mame out of Edward St Aubyn’s Melrose saga, Patrick deWitt’s FRENCH EXIT is the kind of book that sparks envy in other writers, procurement by motion picture producers, and competition from actors hoping to play these characters and …

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you’re not special: (but this play is)

YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL may seem a strange title for a play in an age where we are told we are all special.

But as one character points out, to call someone “one in a million” when you consider the population …

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judas and the black messiah: must,must see

“The only real democracy is socialism. Housing, justice, peace… Life, liberty, happiness… It’s all right there in the Declaration of Independence. But when poor people demand it, it’s a contradiction. It’s not democracy. It’s socialism, dig?”

Can you dig it?…

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nomadland: see it down the road

A postcode apocalypse. That’s what befell the town of Empire, Nevada elevation 4000, population now zero.

The fall of Empire is what makes America grate for so many working class citizens, folk who have bought into the capitalist dream to …

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wild thing : it makes your heart sing

Suzanne Hawley’s play WILD THING starts in 1956. Jackie, Elizabeth, Frances and Susan are thirteen year old high school besties.

Jackie is the leader, the D’Artagnan to her three musketeers, a wild thing ready to buck and challenge the system

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symphonie fantastique: magnifique

Back in 2019, Little Eggs Collective presented Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner as a theatrical piece. It was a triumph.

Now this company is presenting a musical piece, Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, as a theatrical …

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black box: buckle up

One of the great horrors of contemporary life is commercial aviation catastrophe, the gross loss of life when airliners plummet from the sky into the sea or into a mountain.

Investigators of such calamities have relied on the so called …

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dead letters: a lively read

Veteran journalist Michael Brissenden carved out another career niche a few years ago with the publication of THE LIST, a thriller of exceptionally high calibre.

Just to show that it was no fluke and that he is no one hit …

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