August 21

4:48 Psychosis – Sarah Kane and the inclusion of everything. (Theatre Review)

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4:48 Psychosis Workhorse Theatre Company with Red Line Productions Tyhe Old Fitz Theatre 16 August – 9 September You can grab your tickets here Images: Andre Vasquez   It is already too late to think in terms of separate genres or subgenres of critical discourse necessarily explained and expanded in some clear-cut cultural division of labour […]

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August 04

4:48 Psychosis – Lisa chats with Anthony Skuse (Theatre Interview)

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4:48 Psychosis is at The Old Fitz from 16 August to 9 September. You can grab your tickets here.  The Sydney theatre community is maturing into a distinctive vehicle for theatre written about, for and engaged with the female voice. It’s a thrilling time for a witness such as myself. A time filled with inspiration, […]

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August 02

Acts of Faith – Melvyn Morrow and the ownership of “facts” (Theatre Review)

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Acts of Faith King Street Theatre from 18 July to 5 August You can grab your tickets through Tickets Tonight here, or through Kings Street theatre here. Surely the placement of the Property Developer and the Nun in a real estate deal is one of the most modern examples of the spheres of fiction and […]

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July 31

Technicolor Life – Theatre as an enormity. (Theatre Review)

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Technicolor Life The Depot Theatre 26 July – 12 August. You can grab tickets through Tickets Tonight here.  Images by Katy green Loughrey It was Theorodre Adorno who stated “ The coming extinction of art is pre-figured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events.” The lamentation of intellectual discourse that everything has already been […]

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July 21

This much is True – Hearkening back to a restricted discourse. (Theatre review)

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This Much is True Red line Productions 12 Julyy – 12 August The Old Fitz You can grab your tickets here In world obsessed with the “limitations” of so called political correctness, it is a sophisticated pleasure to toddle along to Louis Nowra’s play This Much IS True for a reminder of how restricted speech […]

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July 15

FRONT – Is it ever about the music? (Theatre Review)

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FRONT The Depot Theatre with Jack Rabbit Theatre From 28 June to 15 July 2017 You can grab your tickets thought Tickets Tonight here.   My partner has a saying: Seek forgiveness and not permission. It’s formally attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper who was forced to live by it, but it has long been […]

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July 14

Before Lysistrata – Power to the People (theatre Review)

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Before Lysistrata Montague basement Currently showing KXT from 10 July to 22 July You can grab your tickets here Ironically, it was the success of Donald Trump that brought to light a previously hidden kind of absurdity to the discourse of consensus. Before his election win, enlightened reason existed as the great arbiter, the great […]

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June 29

I am on Radio National Today

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Good morning! For those of you keen on the amazing Clarice Lispector, I am talking about her on Radio National today. The program is Books and Arts and I am part of the monthly Latin American book club. You can read up here. I have also bumped the posts I’ve done (many moons ago) on […]

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June 28

Água Viva – Clarice Lispector and reading the invisable text. (Book Review)

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The journey one takes toward Clarice Lispector has a great deal to do with the way she is read. I came to her through Helene Cixous, and therefore she (CL) has become inseparable from me, as I experiment with my reading of her, paying almost as much attention to my internal carry-on-chorus that wobbles along […]

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June 28

The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector speaks on life, death and the question ‘Who am I?’

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  Everything in the world began with a yes.  One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes.  It was ever so.  I do not know why, but I do know the universe never […]

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