Helplessness, grief, agency: a personal note

This weekend, I spent two days at the Malthouse Theatre talking about the climate crisis. It was part of an event called Tipping Point Austr...

Melbourne Festival: The Wrap

After several thousand words and a couple of days ruminating, what else is there to say about MIAF 2010? There it was. Here we are. We'v...

MIAF diary #8: Seven Songs, Tomorrow, in a Year, An Anthology of Optimism

So, that was MIAF 2010, signing off last night with a huge star-studded Black Armband extravaganza in the Myer Music Bowl. The weather gods ...

MIAF Diary #7: Opening Night

Finally, in its last week, the Melbourne Festival has warmed up. Quite literally - there's no doubt that a couple of balmy nights help l...

MIAF Diary #6: Vertical Road

Death cultivates visibility...The image does not reflect reality, but rather, the spectacular end of all reality.To see, means to die; to wa...

MIAF Diary #5: Jack Charles v. The Crown, Adapting for Distortion / Haptic

Now I'm facing Melbourne Festival Week #3: and I confess that my feathers are a little bedraggled, my tail and whiskers a little less th...

MIAF Diary #4: The Beckett Trilogy

This inertia of things is enough to drive one literally insane.Molloy, Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett is famously one of the most recondite of...

MIAF Diary #3: Carnival of Mysteries, Come, Been and Gone, Thomas Adès and the Calder Quartet

Ms TN is still standing: but I was grateful for a couple of nights home early this week. I'm not complaining - don't get me wrong - ...

MIAF Diary #2: Intimacy, The Blue Dragon

In 2007, Raimondo and Adriano Cortese's company Ranters had an independent hit with their production Holiday, which saw a return season ...

MIAF Diary #1: Stifters Dinge, The Raft

Born in 1952, Heiner Goebbels is a difficult artist to categorise, although it's probably most accurate to call him a composer. He has w...

Just a quick note...

The first few days of the Melbourne Festival have been a time of maximum input, with no time for outputting (aside from Twitter, which exist...

Fringe: Intimate Exposure, The Event, Dances with Worms

Ms TN's second week of Fringe demonstrated her craft and guile in negotiating the program: I enjoyed all three shows. There were a coupl...

Launch speech: Keepers

It's unlikely to be published anywhere: so here is the celebratory speech I wrote for last night's launch of Philip Salom's new ...

Poetic asides

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of editing Cordite Poetry Magazine's Creative Commons issue. Now, for your further pleasure, t...