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[Published in the Age, November 3 2012] TWO AND A HALF STARS THE buddy comedy is founded on the maxim that opposites attract. While Elling gets the odd-couple dynamic right, the narrative becomes laboured in resolving the unhealthy co-dependency of this bromance. Set in Oslo, Elling is based on Ingvar Ambjornsen’s 1996 novel Brodre i […]
September 3, 2012
[Published in the Age, September 3 2012] FOUR AND A HALF STARS With debates over gender disparity in Australian theatre so vehement, it seems no coincidence that two major companies have chosen to stage Caryl Churchill’s 1982 Top Girls this year: a ground-breaking exploration of career women in Thatcher’s Britain and the sacrifices they make […]
June 25, 2012
[Published in Beat, June 25 2012] The fable of the ant and the cricket teaches a lesson in work ethics: during summer, the cricket spends their days singing in the shade, while the ant diligently harvests food for the coming winter. When the snows come, the starving cricket must beg the ant for assistance but […]
February 13, 2012
[Published on Beat.com.au, February 13 2012] “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”. So wrote philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, discussing the relationship between language and reality in 1922. This quote could well be the epigraph to Tribes, a new family drama that explores the correlation of language and identity, and the power […]
January 22, 2012
[Published on Beat.com.au, January 22 2011] Before the actors set foot on stage, the set of MTC’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll says much about the wistful portrait of 1950s Australian suburbia that will follow. Mottled peach walls, musty lace curtains billowing in the always-open window, floorboards scuffed raw with the years, languorous summer light […]
November 3, 2012
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