Robin Knightly is the nom de plume of a writer whose mother was born in eastern Ukraine, and father in western Ukraine. Both parents survived the Ukrainian genocide orchestrated by the regime in Moscow. The 1932-1933 famine was executed by confiscating the wheat harvests, a seizure that took the lives of six million Ukrainian children, women and men. The writer’s grandfather was humiliated in one of the 1930’s show trials, dragged off and murdered. Both parents escaped to Australia as refugees on forged papers. The writer was born here.
Express the human heart. Begin at the beginning. Start with conception in the uterus. Add the ten thousand things that impact the human heart invitro. As well, all that, day-to-day, month-to-month, touches the mother’s heart carrying the foetus. And …
A good dancer beautifully performs the choreography. A great dancer’s body does not perform. It is as if there is no choreography. Body and soul move as ifefirst time. As if the dancer has never moved before. Spontaneous. Coherent. Utterly …
Heaven touched Earth. God made the laws of physics dance. Result: a visceral quantum leap. The Riverside Theatre audience, in Parramatta, witnessed it.
It was contemporary dance choreographer Amy Campbell’s, LEAP.
For almost an hour and a half, it …
Robyn Hendricks, as Anna Karenina, and Callum Linanne, as Alexei Vronsky, entrance each other in the ballroom scene of the opening Act. Their pas de deux turns Tolstoian prose into live flesh and blood: words, that pierce the …
1913 to 1936: Ukrainian historian, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, publishes his ten volume History of Ukraine-Rus. He addresses the contentious question of Ukrainian-Russian identity. The following extract – an edited citation of his “Introductory Remarks” – puts the subsequent timeline of …
What is the gutsiest, most definitively feminine role an actor can play? The foxy Rosalind? The wily-shrewd Kate? The vaginal-nectarine goddess of war Cleopatra?
Today, a new contender vies to be THE feminine dramatic role an actor would die for …