After an overly sensible young adulthood in the UK blighted by a business degree and attempts at climbing the corporate ladder, Roger saw the light and moved to Australia where he drifted into journalism and reignited a teenage love of the arts and general wonderment at the world. Viewed as slightly odd for his habit of reading books in pubs, he lives in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. He has no pets.
GOOD VIBRATIONS is a rambling rock-and-roll film set in Belfast, during the bombings, shootings and sectarian violence, in which boy meets band, boy loses a big band, boy meets lots of bands. Oh, and along the way boy also meets …
You’d have to be desperate to be in love with Todd Sampson, given that he is already happily married with a couple of kids. And middle-aged Laura, the ‘I’ in the play’s title, is desperate, to the point of despair.
Prostitution as a means of empowering women is a contentious notion even now, let alone in 1893 when MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION was written by Dublin-born social reformer George Bernard Shaw (who also wrote PYGMALION). No wonder it was banned from
Inspired by events surrounding the disappearance and murder of multi-millionaire Herman Rockefeller in 2010, DREAMS IN WHITE is a powerful and emotionally draining new play by Duncan Graham that’s anchored by the murder of an obnoxious swinger Ray Wimple aka
A Hollywood pitch for this film might be MRS ROBINSON meets DAMIEN OMEN II. Or, given the way that this creepy yet captivating French film likes to switch roles around, perhaps DAMIEN OMEN II meets MRS ROBINSON.
We first meet
THE SAPPHIRES (M) was a hugely successful stage show. The movie version never quite hits the heights of its live theatre origins, a fate that befell BRAN NUE DAY.
Of course, that did not stop BRAN NUE DAY from doing