Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
Coming to grips with the memories and lessons of America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a task that would be difficult to better than Leo Tolstoy’s novella HADJI MURAT which reports on the the 30-year war between the …
Above : author pic Marinos Sariyannis
With a title that has a tantalising hook embedded in the first line, how could I resist. This book is a tome filled to the brim with a comprehensive survey, the first, of Ottoman …
What makes Julie Taymor’s adaptation of THE TEMPEST so audacious, against the negative reception to its showing when it debuted in 2010– is that it opened up space inside the Bard’s play to reveal themes that the text might otherwise …
The events of this book are not told in chronological order, but described as reflections on various aspects of life in the labour camps.
Primo Levi, a 24 year old Italian Jewish man, is arrested by Italy’s newly-arisen Fascist Republic. …
This book with a tantalising hook, is a summation of his decades-long research into Van Gogh’s death, which argues that the artist was murdered by Dr. Gachet, the semi-prominent homoeopathic doctor who treated his melancholia and collected ( sometimes selling)
My invitation read: if you’re feeling game, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to be seated in the Splatter Zone….souvenir poncho provided….splatter or safe?
Ok, my interested is piqued, so without consulting my partner, I accepted on our …
News of Grace Jones’s show on the 28 February came with a shuddering caveat. Will it clash with the Mardi Gras Parade, in a sick replay of the Kylie Minogue debacle?
Here we are, 20 bodies length from the stage …
Director Nadav Lapid’s brilliant, showy set-pieces present a caricature of decadence and heartlessness in a society haunted by 7 October.
YES is a fierce, stylised confrontational caricature-satire in its sexualised choreography thats almost radioactive with political pain. With icy …
Above : Charles Mayer vas Prospero. Pic Syl Marie
With this compelling production at the Glen Street Theatre, Come You Spirits Theatre, created an engaging re-imagining of Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, fielding a superlative cast of lost souls stranded for years …
There is nothing more boring than a biopic. Too often conceived with fidelity than creativity, they follow generally the same formula of of presenting a historical figure’s life in straightforward fashion hitting the identical beats of birth, early years, and …