Quick hits

1. Ex-Melbourne and Red Stitch director Sam Strong has been appointed the new artistic director of Sydney's Griffin Theatre. Joanne Ersk...

Review: Oedipus - A Poetic Requiem

The unspeakable is spoken.Howard Barker, Theatre Without a ConscienceThe naming of the intolerable is itself the hope.John Berger, And Our F...

Measuring out my life...

To my distress and dudgeon, I did Matt's Which Book Are You? quiz and found out that I am J. Alfred Prufrock. I guess it could be worse,...

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...

The ideology of theatre

Playwright and critic Walter A. Davis has a brilliant and thought-provoking essay just up at MCW News which takes apart the tired old left/r...

Blogosphere alerts

It's all happening in the theatre blogosphere. First of all, my estimable colleague Chris Boyd has kicked off his own theatre review blo...

Phaedra's Love

Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane, directed by Julie Waddington, design Julie Waddington and Luke Hails, sound by Nicholas Albanis. With Be...

Wounds to the Face

Wounds to the Face, By Howard Barker, directed by Jess Kingsford, with Stephanie Miller, Joshua Hewitt, Christopher Brown, Matt Boesenberg, ...

The Irresponsible Mr Barker

"Art has no duty" - Howard BarkerEnglish playwright Howard Barker must be in the zeitgeist. Just last week, Barker's play Wo...