this is england

‘This is England’ was a brilliant film. I’ll get on the site again soon and go into detail about the film
but if you get a chance to see it on DVD go for it. The director is merciless in

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halpern and johnson

There is a dark theme at the heart of Anthony Weigh’s controversial play, ‘2,000 Feet Away’ which makes it an important, provocative work.

Weigh’s play is set in the present time in the state of Iowa in the United States.

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hell hath no fury

Wayne Tunks has set his new play, ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ in a hairdressing salon which seems like a perfectly fine place to start a play. (Just think ‘Steel Magnolias’). At hairdressing salons, the women are there to talk and

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respect

‘Respect’, which played at the State Theatre, was a good night at the theatre. Professor Dorothy Marcic’s play, adapted from one of her books, and adapted for the stage in Australia by Beatrix Christian, looks at the lives of women

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sizwe banzi is dead

Peter Brooks ‘Swize Banzi is Dead’ was a special night in the theatre. It sure helped getting front row of seats! What a treat! To have front row seats to a Peter Brooks directed production at the Playhouse of the

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vital organs

This year has been one of the best years for Belvoir Street Theare’s B Sharp program. Every one of the shows has had something to offer, mostly leaning to heavier kinds of dramas. It was great to see the B

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pirates of penzance

A high spirited production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ was performed at the Kenmore Theatre Goulburn by the Argyle Theatre Company.

Right from the start, the show had a rollicking start with the pirate gang coming from

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hunting and gathering

Claude Berri’s ‘Hunting and Gathering’ is a lovely French film starring Audrey Tautou. ‘Hunting and Gathering’ was about all sort of things but it was mainly a love story and a story about people finding themselves.

The pleasure of ‘Hunting

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crazy love

2007 has been a year for some outstanding documentaries. Another film to add to this year’s lisr is American filmmakers Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens, ‘Crazy Love’.

‘Crazy Love’ charts the course of one of the strangest love stories ever

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brave

The new film ‘Brave’ starred Josie Foster as New York DJ Erica whose normal, middle class is blown apart after a horrible Central Park mugging that sees her fiance murdered, and sees her suffer severe injuries. The mugging throws Erica

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