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...