Richard Cotter

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

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DEADMAN’S MONEY: MURDER MOST FOUL

The Scottish play transferred and interpreted to modern day Northern Ireland.

And who’s to say Shakespeare is not universal, so?

DEAD MAN’S MONEY is a magnificent modern re imagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, that shows where there’s a will, there’s a

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SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES

Where most sequels squeal like a pig, SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES revels like a pig in shit.

Forty years in the faking, SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES is a fake it till we make it mock it

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DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY: A RECIPE FOR READING

A bestseller in Japan, Hika Harada’s DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY has been translated into English by Philip Gabriel and published by the Simon & Schuster imprint, Scribner.

I mention this matter of fact as DINNER AT THE NIGHT LIBRARY

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HOMEBOUND: CRICKET, COPS, CASTES AND COVID

An epic of caste, cops, cricket, COVID and cracked heels, HOMEBOUND, is the long awaited new feature from acclaimed Indian director Neeraj Ghaywan, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, opens in Australian cinemas on September 26 after an acclaimed

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BRIGHT STAR: A SHINING ACHIEVEMENT

If You Knew my Story is a fine song to start any musical and that’s just what begins the fine and dandy blue grass musical by Steve Martin and Eddie Brickell, BRIGHT STAR.

By the time this big, bold, bodacious

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WHEN I GROW UP: FLURRY WITH A FRINGE OVER TOP

Jeromaia Detto hits the Marx at the beginning of his nutty one man show, WHEN I GROW UP.

Sporting Groucho glasses and nose and making weird noises and exclamations, Detto ensconces himself in the audience as a faux punter, leading

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SKETCH: DRAWING ON GRIEF

Shot in Tennessee and VXD in Sydney, SKETCH is a quaint kiddie flick about grieving.

After Mum dies, Amber morphs into a maternal orphan, drawing death dealing monsters in her notebook as a way of channelling her pain, grief and

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