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ATLANTIS: NOT SINKING, SOARING

Rising like a phoenix almost a decade after its first production, ATLANTIS makes a welcome, albeit brief, return to the Sydney stage.

Like the mythical city it takes its title from, Paul Gilchrist’s ATLANTIS is about sinking ideals and submerged

Theatre

MONSTROUS: HORRIBLY GOOD

Monstrously more interesting than almost anything on the Sydney’s main stages at the moment, MONSTROUS mounts a provocative production of transgressive tensions.

The play opens with a transgression, a live theatre show starting with projected screen credits like a movie.

Cinema

PRIME MINISTER: OPTIMISM, KINDNESS & HOPE

 

Here’s hoping history is as kind to Jacinda Ardern as the keystone of her philosophy. Kindness.

Kindness is considered weak by the strong men of politics. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu prefer cruelty to kindness, perceiving kindness akin to passive deficiency,

Cinema

SHELL: PRAWNOGRAPHIC FUN

Pulchritudinous. It sounds dirty but it means pretty. It’s a word that Kate Hudson’s character, Zoe Shannon is enamoured of in Max Minghella’s SHELL.

Superior B picture in the vein of The Substance, SHELL takes its name from the

Theatre

4 MINUTES,12 SECONDS: DANGEROUS DIGITAL LIAISONS

Photographer: Phil Erbacher.

4 MINUTES 12 SECONDS is the title not the running time of this one hour and twenty minutes of coruscating contemporary theatre.

Frightening and frequently funny, James Fritz’s forensically layered play peels away at the pernicious phenomenon

Cinema

FRANKENSTEIN: LATEST ADAPTATION IMPRESSIVLEY EPIC

Scale works better” says Victor Frankenstein, on why larger cadavers are his choice of corpse patchwork quilting in Guillermo del Torro’s long gestating adaptation of the Mary Shelley’s legendary book.

The latest in this unending series of cinematic renderings

Cinema

FAMILIAR TOUCH: DIMENSIONS

That old devil dementia, the mind and memory trickster, is playing merry hell with Ruth Goldman, widowed retired cook and mother of her only child, her son, Steve.

She’s getting ready for a date, getting finicky about what to wear,

Literature

VAGABOND: CURRY FAVOUR

From sweet transvestite to sage vagabond, from vanguard of the stage to cult figure of the silver screen, Tim Curry has an extraordinary tale to tell.

In his memoir, VAGABOND, Curry engenders a shiver of anticipation with every chapter, something

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