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travelling north

David Williamson’s play TRAVELLING  NORTH is now 35 years old. Many people will know this piece from the film adaptation which starred the late Leo McKern as the larrakin, left wing, classical music loving Aussie, Frank.  For the current Sydney …

Opera

the turk in italy

It is hard to believe that this is the bicentenary of the first production of this work, and that it has been rarely performed.  An absolute musical and visual treat, a hilarious blaze of slapstick and colour, ‘The Turk  in …

Cinema

grudge match

In 1976, ROCKY won the Oscar for Best Picture. It beat TAXI DRIVER.

Star of ROCKY, Sylvester Stallone and star of TAXI DRIVER, Robert de Niro were in contention for best actor. They were pushed out of the ring by …

Cinema

12 years a slave

SLAVE2“You’re an exceptional Nigger, but I fear nothing good will come of it.” quoth plantation owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) to Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

Solomon is the virtuoso violinist from upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery …

Sydney Festival: Past Years, Theatre

black diggers

What a great story for a leading Australian theatre company like the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) to tell at this time! And what timing! Whilst the show was still playing, on Australia’s Day, Koori AFL star Adam Goodes was announced …

Cinema

the wolf of wall street

Fuckin’ excessive in four letter expletives, pharmaceutically profligate and big bladder testing in its running time, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is cinema onomatopoeia as it becomes its own subject, seduced by what its depicting, a Faustian bargain of a …

Theatre

hotel sorrento

‘Melancholy’ is the title of Meg’s autobiographical novel that has brought her fame and a tilt at the Booker Prize, and which sets the sparks flying within her family in leading Australian playwright Hannie Rayson’s 1990 play, HOTEL SORRENTO. It …

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