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The photographer, Polixeni Papapetrou died in April last year at age 57 after a five year illness. Her friend, writer Joanna Murray-Smith writes about the artist in an introduction to the new book Polixeni Papapetrou published by Thames & Hudson. The 96 page ‘mini-monograph’ is one of a new series of monographs on Australian female artists, selected by series editor
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After a few blazing years lighting up Sydney’s skies, last year saw some chatter that perhaps the Vivid concept is becoming tired. Whether it was the jam-packed crowds, overzealous security staff or an uninspiring format – there was comment from a few local punters that the festival was no longer for them. However, despite last
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Travis Vella’s To those that were missing (2018) is a medium size oil on board, a representational work, depicting four female figures in the format of a family snapshot. Three of these figures are older women clad in vintage clothing, sensible collared dresses, one in blue, one in yellow and another in red. The figures are standing
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ABC Radio producer and journalist Kon Karamountzos talks to Daily Review about his meeting with an 86 year-old survivor of the Nazi massacre known as the May 1941 Battle of Crete which led to a radio documentary that can be heard here. ABC Melbourne radio producer Kon Karamountzos was researching the infamous Massacre of Kondomari when he
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If time machines existed, Roger Eno would teleport to the outer Paris suburb Arcueil, circa 1900. There, with “a top shelf gin to help break the ice”, he’d introduce himself to eccentric pianist Erik Satie, on his daily trek into town. Satie, you see, is 60-year-old Eno’s hero, his haunting, early minimalism the chief influence
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Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, the chorus sings. And that’s no small feat. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece is an Everest musical for any company. It calls for a big orchestra. Big voices. Big emotions, from playful vaudeville to macabre tragedy. Complex staging. Subtle shifts in mood and musicality. There are variations, of course. Bryn Terfel
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The Brits are renowned for serving up small but emotionally satisfying films, and Wild Rose sits comfortably in the category. There’s an anti-heroine at its centre who, despite her many flaws, you can’t help rooting for. You also want to tell her to wake up to herself and stop being so frustratingly self-destructive. The woman
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I hated this play. Watching its premiere at the State Theatre Company in Adelaide a couple of years back, Andrew Bovell’s overripe melodrama had a pungent smell of the worst type of contemporary middle-class storytelling It presented as theatre by committee — which it is; a rehearsal room collaboration between writer, directors and the original
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Philip Quast with Anne-Maree McDonald at the piano, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, June 10. One show only. There are few Australian music theatre performers as celebrated as Philip Quast, and none more modest about their accomplishments. So in this, the only performance of the world premiere of his one-person show, he seems almost startled
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland works exceptionally hard to take us into a dream world – but does it truly transport our hearts and minds elsewhere? In the Australian Ballet’s trippy take on the Lewis Carroll tale, we journey with Alice from quaint Oxford gardens to deep under the sea; then to a sausage factory with
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