As CEO of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, Carol wrote dozens of role plays to train mediators. Once retired, she wrote short plays,15 of which have been produced in festivals. Her longer plays have been produced by Nautanki Theatre, Subtlenuance Theatre and the Indian Association. She founded Scene Theatre Sydney in 2008.
It was a glorious evening as the quartet played Haydn, Boccherini and Mozart with the Harbour views seen through the glass-walled Utzon Room. The musicians and the magnificent Jorn Utzon tapestry were reflected on window-wall. The enormous orange-ochre reflection was …
Young Asian women start a cosmetic company. They are an Indian-Singaporean who uses her British education as a weapon, a Chinese woman who fears for her life if she returns to China, a Japanese woman escaping a toxic workplace, a …
The Furies of ancient myth travelled the world taking deadly revenge on evil mortals. They were angry women dispensing terrifying retribution. In Mandy Beaumont’s The Furies, key character Cynthia awaits retribution that never arrives.
The Queensland outback is blamed for …
DEAD HORSE GAP is the latest in Lee Christine’s Snowy Mountains Mystery Series. It’s a classic formulaic murder thriller. It’s all there. The female policewoman undermined by her male supervisor, the burgeoning romance between two police officers, the murder …
THE CANE is a thriller PLUS. It is so much more than a typical formulaic who-done-it. It is a sociological study of what happens to a community when a young woman disappears. Rumours abound. Fear spreads. The boyfriend, the local …
Davina Jackson’s AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE is more than a history of buildings and their designers. It is a history of Australia seen through structures from 60,000 years ago to current times. She describes the Aboriginal structures, including drawings of the …
How We Love is a memoir from childhood to age 41, by Clementine Ford, Australian feminist writer and broadcaster. It is a gender bending recounting of a troubled life, a tell-all, confusing recitation of vodka rattled romances, a divorce and …
The wonderful vast space of the Cutaway at the Barangaroo Reserve is filled with over 100 artists exhibiting a great variety of styles, mediums and techniques. It is an inspiring show. The stalls are held by individual artists, not by …
Christos Tsiolkas, the author of 7 ½ says “Art is not only about rage and justice and politics. It is also about pleasure and joy; it is also about beauty…In a time of rage and confusion, I wanted to …
A furphy is Australian slang for an improbable story that grows to become factual. It may have derived from J. Furphy & Sons of Shepparton, a carting company. The cart driver went from place to place, picking up bits of …