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...