The dinner party from hell is hardly a novel topic for a play - whether it’s Albee or Bunuel or Bill Shakespeare - so the assessment is not ‘what’s new, pussycat?’ but ‘how well was it done?’ Fortunately the latest production, the Housewarming’ by “Famous Last Words Theatre” is well done indeed. It traces one... Continue Reading →
There is a fine new Australian film exploring old (ancient) anxieties about being lonely and lost in the vast ‘alien’ spaces of the Australian continent. It’s not quite as good as 1978’s Long Weekend, but it could (should) easily be on a double bill because it would hold its own and provoke further thoughts. Alphabet... Continue Reading →
I am in Adelaide. Lucky me, lucky Adelaide. Have read two rather good essays, about Australia's Place In the World. There are two quotes that speak to the same period, which covers me growing up (or taller, anyway) and then the mid-1990s pivot. From Hugh White's Quarterly Essay "Hard New World - our post-American future."... Continue Reading →
Went a bit quiet, for reasons of idleness, biography and geography. Will make up for lost time (which, actually, you know, you can't really do). Watch this space, for stuff on ANZAC/Australia, the responsibility of NGOs, some book reviews and rants etc.
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