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[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
March 30, 2012
[Published in Crikey, Friday 30 March 2012] By Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Ben Eltham Bill Shorten is running an idea up the flagpole: long-service leave for artists and musicians. “I’m going to ask the House of Representatives to investigate the remuneration of performing artists with practical reference to long-service leave,” the Labor minister told Crikey, confirming […]
March 16, 2012
[Published in Crikey, March 16 2012] The state of arts criticism in Australia has been a topic of doleful conversation for a few years now. From all accounts, things are pretty dire. Critics across the disciplines are bemoaning the shrinking space in print media, the “everyone’s a critic” mentality of blogging, the timidity of Australia’s […]
March 6, 2012
[Published in Liticism, March 7 2012] There is a passage in Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding in which college baseball captain Mike Schwartz describes what he sees as the paradox at the heart of his sport: You loved it because you considered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by people with a […]
April 27, 2012
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