Radio spots

Those curious to hear my dulcet tones can listen to me speaking about Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species on ABC Radio'...

George Fairfax Memorial Award

Last night I had the pleasant task of helping to give away some money to a young artist. It was the announcement of the winner of the Georg...

Your turn

ABC Radio National program Airplay is broadcasting my radio play Specula either today or yesterday (they say August 26, I was told 3pm on Su...

Well, then...

A few days ago I mentioned that I had to cut back on my workaholic tendencies before I either collapsed or began to write bilge.A writer wou...

Construction of the Human Heart

Construction of the Human Heart by Ross Mueller, directed by Brett Adam. Lighting by Rob Irwin, sound by Casey Bennetto. With Fiona Macleod ...

More about me

For which this blog is not intended, so I promise I will get back to controlled egocentricity very soon.However, I feel that I need to expla...

Vale

Over at Sarsaparilla, Kerryn alerts me to two deaths. Playwright Alex Buzo, one of the pioneers of the New Wave Australian drama, died after...

Belatedly...

I ought to read Andrew Bolt's blog more often. I'm not sure whether I should be flattered - it seems that I'm a "much talke...

Critical masses

Thanks so much to everyone who posted nice comments on the essay I dragged out of the archives. Theatre Notes feels loved and cherished... T...

Festen

Festen, dramatised by David Eldridge, based on the dogme film and play by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bo Hr. Hansen, directed by Sim...

From the archives

Today, for a couple of reasons, I was going through some old work, and I found this essay. I don't think it has ever been published, and...

More Things

Your faithful blogger is again hosting Things on Sunday at the Malthouse Theatre on, yep, Sunday. The topic is "The Empty Space", ...

Not Like Beckett

Not Like Beckett by Michael Watts, directed by Michael Kantor. Design by Anna Cordingley, lighting by Niklas Pajanti, sound and composition...

Elsewhere

TN has been catching up on her blog reading, which was interrupted by a refreshing three weeks away from a computer screen. And to say I am ...