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nymphomaniac

NYMPHOMANIAC. Provocative word, proactive title. What else would one expect of Lars Von Trier?!

Von Trier has been trotting out provocative, audacious, infuriating, films for the past thirty years, and with few exceptions, the films have been at least …

Dance

dark side of the crown

Last Sunday evening at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre as the lights dimmed, the predominantly female crowd burst into a cacophony of ululation. The curtain rose and an elaborately dressed performer, with a candelabra on her head, danced across the stage followed …

Theatre

the weir

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Whenever I see a show that involves the characters drinking alcohol I always want to join them and feel quite envious that they are having a grand ol’ time down there and I’m sitting and merely watching. It’s even worse …

Music

‘bondi sings’ with friends

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BONDI SINGS started off as a council funded community choir  around 2005. Then they went through 3 different choir directors until they struck gold with Mr Gary Smith and gradually became a self-supported group. They officially established themselves as Bondi …

Theatre

heaven help us

Forget the lock outs and the last drinks policy plaguing Kings Cross pubs and focus on the comedy that’s on offer at the Kings Cross Hotel’s level 4 Bordello Theatre.

HEAVEN HELP US is a cheeky cherubic chutzpah of a …

Theatre

socrates now

“True wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing.”

Last night, I was very privileged to be present at a rare gift at the Seymour Centre’s York Theatre. It is a rare gift to see a consummately performed, English translated …

Theatre

ganesh versus the third reich

With all the doom and gloom emanating from Geelong lately with the closures of Ford and Alcoa, it’s great to see one of that city’s success stories, Back to Back Theatre, showcase their award winning show GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD …

Australian Cinema, Cinema

fcca awards 2013

Another great night at the Paddington RSL for the Film Critics Circle  of Australia (FCCA) annual awards, Tuesday March 11.

MC Rod Quinn presided over a very relaxed ceremony where a meat tray as a prize would not have been …

Theatre

stop kiss

How good was that! As I was making my way out of the ATYP’s Studio 1 Theatre, this was my immediate and emphatic response to the ATYP’s current production, Anthony Skuse’s Australian premiere production of New York playwright Diana Son’s …

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