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dancing naked in the backyard

Brave New Word Theatre Company continues to produce fresh and new Australian plays with its latest show DANCING NAKED IN THE BACKYARD.

Written by C.J. Naylor, the script, as with previous shows, was experimented and improvised on by Naylor and …

Ballet, Literature

a darker side to ballet

BALLERINA: SEX, SCANDAL AND SUFFERING BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF PERFECTION by Deidre Kelly

Publisher:- Greystones Books.  RRP $17.95

This is a fascinating , disturbing book for those who love dance and also others interested in gender studies for example. It

Cinema

the other woman

THE OTHER WOMAN is directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz (Carly) as a smart and beautiful New York lawyer, who suddenly learns that her monogamous and unmarried boyfriend of eight weeks, Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is in fact happily …

Music

kinetic 2014 jazz festival

Trubute to Wes Montgomery.  Photo Saha Jones

The KINETIC JAZZ FESTIVAL is in full swing again this year featuring the cream of Australia’s jazz musicians playing over six nights.

Now in its fifth year, co-directors of Kinetic Energy Theatre Company, Graham Jones and Jepke Goudsmit, have transformed …

Musical Theatre

the rise and fall of little voice

“Finding your own voice can be magic.”

This stage musical play, has a great script and heart-warming story about a dysfunctional family and the inadvertent discovery of torch-songs singer LV by little known agent RAY SAY. The show’s many songs …

Cinema

fading gigolo

When Woody Allen is not writing and directing his own movies, he’s mentoring.

The story goes that John Turturro was telling his barber about this idea for a film and his barber, who is also Woody’s tonsure tech, passed the …

Theatre

the government inspector

This is a slam.

Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 play THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR is a masterpiece. It is one of my all-time favourite plays. The final scene where the true Government Inspector arrives is one of the finest scenes in …

Theatre

strictly ballroom the musical

After the long wait and much anticipation, Baz Luhrman’s new version of STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MUSICAL has arrived.

The story still has plenty of charge-the romance between Scott and Fran… the credo to live by- a life lived in fear …

Theatre

pinocchio

‘Are you brave enough to be real’?

A fabulous bright bold and colourful re telling of this much loved Carlo Collodi story for all ages that enchants .Yes , this is still a very moral story , of a little …

Australian Cinema, Cinema

canopy

Second Image

Strategically placed for an ANZAC DAY premiere, CANOPY is ostensibly a one man WWII show about an Australian flyer shot down over Singapore in 1942.

The airman’s parachute has landed him in the canopy of a jungle, a forest infested …

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