[Published in Crikey, April 27 2012] By Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Ben Eltham In late 2009, Company B Belvoir unveiled its 2010 season. So did the Melbourne Theatre Company. Belvoir’s season featured only one female playwright and one female director. The Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2010 season also featured only one female director. In previous years, such… [Read more…]
April 25, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Issue #405, April 24 2012] PART OF A GROUP OF AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS MAKING INTERNATIONAL WAVES, KIERAN DARCY-SMITH HAS TOILED FOR YEARS TO PRODUCE HIS DEBUT FEATURE, WISH YOU WERE HERE. NOW THE ACCOLADES ARE ROLLING IN. Four Australian friends jet off to Sihanoukville in Southern Cambodia for a relaxing… [Read more…]
April 25, 2012
[Published in Beat, Issue #1317, April 25 2012] The realm of childhood is a liminal zone. Unable to fend for ourselves, we are beholden to adults to teach us about the world. Our character, our worldview and our values are already beginning to take shape, many aspects of which will stay with us through our… [Read more…]
April 15, 2012
[Published in Crikey, April 13 2012] By Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Ben Eltham One of the more interesting links to cross our desk lately has been a fund-raising proposal on crowd-sourcing website Pozible. It’s from the Australian Design Alliance, a loose confederation of design organisations seeking to raise funds to research a national design policy. “We… [Read more…]
April 11, 2012
[Published on Liticism, April 11 2012] When Ron Rash isn’t penning fiction and poetry, he works as a Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. It is Rash’s ability to capture this mysterious terrain, which ranges from the southern end of New York State to northern tip of Mississippi, that has always been… [Read more…]
April 10, 2012
[Published in Beat, April 10 2012] The Telescope may only be Claudia O’Doherty’s third show, but she’s had enough. It’s all a sham, you see. Nobody would ever choose to be a comedian. Stand-ups are scouted (it happened to an unsuspecting O’Doherty when she was out to dinner with her family at a Chinese restaurant),… [Read more…]
April 27, 2012
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