Blackout

In a neat illustration of tech age pathetic fallacy, TN has been cut off from the world (gasp) since Wednesday, the internet problems coinci...

Alison's Authorial August

As I have always suspected, being an Author is not the same as being a Writer. It might even be something like the opposite. I'm beginni...

Experiment and thorns

The blogs are running hot with a debate on the issue of experiment. It begins with US music critic Joe Queenan, who launched a broadside in ...

Review: Blackbird

Blackbird by David Harrower, directed by Peter Evans. Set and costumes by Christina Smith, lighting by Matt Scott, sound design by Ben Grant...

Review: Hamlet

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, directed by Marion Potts. Designed by Fiona Crombie, lighting design by Nick Schlieper, composer Sarah Blasko...

Review: The Inhabited Man, Holiday

The Inhabited Man by Richard Murphet, directed by Richard Murphet and Leisa Shelton. Design by Ryan Russell, sound design by Jethro Woodward...

Monday roundup

A number of bits and pieces catch my eye this morning:1. Arts Minister Peter Garrett has asked the Australia Council and Screen Australia to...

Words, words, words...

Ms TN has not been idle this week. Oh no. She's been dragging her jetlag out to no less than four openings (not ideal for the first week...

Joss Whedon goes blog

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on VimeoBehold the future of the internet... TV execs are no doubt waking up at 4.48 am s...

MIAF 2008

ASK Kristy Edmunds what is most exciting about the 2008 Melbourne Festival program - her fourth and, sadly for many of us, her last - and sh...

Germaine lets fly

It was bound to happen. Our Germaine has delivered a couple of fast left hooks at Joanna Murray-Smith, whose play based (or not based) on La...

Meditations on SoundEye

Or, How Little Alison Learned to Love the Bomb AgainOnstage, I am a real person, not a "persona." The people for whom I play are j...

Speaking with grace

It was good to see Bill Henson speaking publicly for the first time after the recent fracas and negotiating the inevitable media glare with ...

...and also

My publisher tells me that my new collection of poems, Theatre, is at last in book form (it took a little longer than expected, and I just m...

Three Men in a Bottle

This might displease Diana Simmonds, who thinks that it's outrageous that I speak about my husband's work (hey Diana, last I looked,...

Jetlaggish meditations

Your faithful blogger is back is town, with a baroque case of laryngitis incubated on the long-haul flight and an even more spectacular dose...