Review: Killing Game

Killing Game by Eugene Ionesco, directed by Greg Stone. Design by John Bennett, lighting by Nick Merrylees, sound by Greg Stone and Evan Dri...

Review: Simple Gifts

My review of George Ogilvie's autobiography Simple Gifts, published by Currency House, was broadcast today on ABC Radio National's T...

MIAF: The Wraps

The Age has several wrap-ups today on MIAF, in general dubbing this year's festival a rather puzzling success. Arts Editor Raymond Gill ...

MIAF: Pichet Klunchun and Myself

Festival diary #7TN is recovering nicely after three weeks of extreme culture vulturing (not as extreme on my part as some others, to whom I...

MIAF: Peepshow, Blind Date

Festival Diary #6My apologies for the tardiness of these reviews. Retrospectively, I diagnosed myself with what Osip Mandelstam called Pre-L...

MIAF: I La Galigo

Festival Diary #5As we enter the third week of the Melbourne Festival, TN finds herself a little alarmed by how easily she fades these days....

Festival nannies

Miriam Cosic, Arts Editor for the Oz, writes waspishly today of the handwringing apparently going on over Kristy Edmunds' MIAF:POOR Mel...

MIAF: Voyage

Festival diary #4Voyage by dumb type, performed by Manna Fujiwara, Yuko Hirai, Takao Kawaguchi, Hidekaazu Maeda, Seiko Ouchi, So Ozaki, Nori...

MIAF: Now That Communism is Dead My Life Feels Empty

Festival Diary #3Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty by Richard Foreman. Direction, composition and design by Max Lyandvert. Ligh...

Briefly off topic

My review of JG Ballard's new novel, Kingdom Come, was broadcast today on ABC Radio National's The Book Show. Transcript and audio h...

MIAF: Ngapartji Ngapartji, La Fille de Cirque

Festival Dairy #2Keen observers might notice that TN is wilting a little. I'm not complaining - far from it - but I'm thinking rathe...

MIAF: Tragedia Endogonidia, 1984

Alison's Festival Diary #1 Yes, it's that time of year again: the Melbourne International Arts Festival has invaded and transformed ...

Fringe Review: Rubeville and Debris

Rubeville, written and directed by Thomas Henning. Music by Liam Barton, Sebastian Steiger and Sean the Saw. With Gareth Davis, Dylan Young ...

Notables

Your faithful blogger has had an indifferent week, struggling with a cold and a short story and losing on both fronts...but I will heroicall...

Blogrollin'

After much procrastination (it's my middle name) I've finally ordered my disgracefully chaotic blogroll. Alphabetically, if you plea...