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REVIEW: The Threepenny Opera
The always-vexing question of the ‘right’ way to do a playtext is particularly vexed when it comes to Brecht; to stage Brecht is almost invariably to fail Brecht.
Changing the Face of Australian Theatre
New Matilda, part 2.
Show Ponies for a Young Nation
Collecting my last writing for New Matilda, part 1.
Dear David Foster Wallace
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to do with talent, even glittering talent like Leyner’s or serious talent like Daitch’s. Talent’s just an instrument. It’s like having a pen that works instead of one that doesn’t. I’m not saying I’m [...]
Deborah Hay’s work returns to Melbourne
The news has just hit my inbox: Dancehouse is presenting a choreography by Deborah Hay (whose If I Sing For You was shown, with great popular success, at MIAF 2008). I am terribly busy, so I will reproduce the press release down below:
DANCEHOUSE in partnership with Critical Path, STRUT dance and Bundanon Trust [...]
‘Non-conventional casting’ continued…
I am swimming in the deep, deep waters of performativity and stage; that is, Butlerian performativity and Schechnerian stage. It is for the purposes of my thesis, and a very muddled place to be (not a place you’d pop over to straight before breakfast, say). But while wrestling with the questions of what it means [...]
problems with cultural studies…
[Nigel Thrift's] theoretical propositions suggest at least three crucial elements that any accounts of everyday life must contain if they are to be plausible and interesting. First, they must be respectful of the social practices through which the everyday unfolds. They must recognise that much social practice is different (but certainly not inferior) to more [...]
What does it mean to go to the theatre?
I will open with a warm exhortation: Hole in the Wall, a Next Wave performance created by a large-ish group of artists including half of My Darling Patricia, is exquisite and closes on the 21st May. Showing at Meat Market twice an evening, it is a little piece of theatre you may still be able [...]
Fatih Yurek: Sus
I think this is one of the greatest disco numbers ever made. Hands down.
Let me finish the sentence…
Excellent article (book excerpt, more precisely in The Age today about unconscious sexism. It compares the cases of two Stanford biologists, both tenured professors, both transgender, and both have undergone sex change late in life:
“Ben once gave a presentation at the prestigious Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A friend relayed a comment made by someone [...]
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