On Paul Capsis

The other evening, as I walked homewards through the lashing rain of a wintry Melbourne night, my heart too swollen and luminous with blood ...

AA Gill sticks his fork in

You have to pity the London crrrritics. Just as the spat over Nicholas Hytner's full-frontal attack reached an uneasy detente, AA Gill r...

Review: Osama the Hero/Ying Tong/Circus Oz

Osama the Hero by Dennis Kelly, directed by Syd Brisbane. Designed by Kate Davis, sound design Tommy Spender, lighting design by Nik Pajanti...

Blackface/black faces

Serendipity rules. Hot on the heels of a debate in the comments on my review of Bell Shakespeare's Othello, in which Anon outlined his o...

Review: Othello, Enlightenment

Othello by William Shakespeare, directed by Marion Potts. Set design Ralph Myers, costumes by Brice McKinven, light design Nick Schlieper, c...

Me and Rilke

I know I've been talking a lot about myself lately, and I swear I'll battle me down and let some theatre get a look-in. But permit m...

Back to regular programming...

A couple of things I've been meaning to note, to clear my desk before I catch up with the reviews that were sidelined in my frenzied bur...

Champagne and chocolate

Yes, I'm feeling celebratory today. In fact, it's a double whammy, so I'm feeling particularly self-indulgent.First, it's Th...

Recent conversations

Over at Mink Tails, Ming-Zhu is hosting an interesting conversation about, well, all sorts of things - Melbourne theatre in the 80s and 90s,...

Stuff

A combination of a lingering cold and the pointy end of my novel has meant that for the past couple of weeks I've been cancelling ticket...

Review: Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, adapted and directed by Simon Stone. Design: set by Jolyon James, Mark Leonard Winter and Simon Stone; c...

Unbelievable

Our very own Max Gillies in excellent form. From the good folks at GetUp! And thanks Richard...

Olympic stupidity

Newsflash: Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School, has had its funding cut, as the first high-profile casualty of the Lon...

Sydneycentrism

Ms Alison has a bad cold. I will spare you the details. In the snotty gloom that is my reality at the moment, inspiration is sadly lacking. ...

Shameless self-promotion

My poem Ars Poetica is up today on the Ars Poetica blog.