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Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National University of Ireland, writes that amid the chaos of Brexit, theatre in the UK and Ireland shows a desire to respect differences. This article was first published in The Clyde Fitch Report – Daily Review’s American publishing partner. The ongoing debate about Brexit has had many
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In the lead-up to the Federal Election 2019, the Federal Minister for Empathy, David Pledger, embarks on a series of interviews with the government’s front bench. Speaking with government ministers, he will tease out what makes the government tick by seeking to understand the role that empathy plays in the development of their political sensibilities. The
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“Poetry is resonating with people who are looking for understanding. It is a really good way to explore complex, difficult emotions and uncertainty” – Andre Breedt, Nielsen Book Research. ** It was World Poetry Day recently. I missed it. I expect most did, too. For the record it was March 21. Put that in your
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The fourth art auction fundraiser for the Australian Prostate Centre (APC) has raised a record $216,000. More than 120 people gathered at Gibson’s Auctions in Melbourne late last month to watch work by 30 sought-after Australians artists go under the hammer for the New Directions 2019 auction. Brisk bidding among collectors ensured that almost 95
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Some film stars play variations of themselves; others disappear into their roles. Somehow Juliette Binoche manages to do both: you’re never entirely unaware that you’re watching the French arthouse stalwart, and yet she manages to embody a spectrum of human emotions unreachable to lesser actors prone to overcompensation and overacting. Between a recent retrospective of
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Friendship’s the thing in Muriel’s Wedding. Friendship, and self respect. And credit card fraud… Though you know what they say: one girl’s fraud is another’s opportunity. How to explain our enduring affection for semi-delusional, slightly subversive, small-time criminal, Muriel Heslop? It’s misleading to use a word like ‘Loser’ to describe her, since it suggests she’s
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Like the No. 1 subway through the Upper West Side, a thin line bisects this alfresco West Side Story on Sydney Harbour. The difference between a great night out and a miserable one? Just add water, as us fancy-frocked freeloaders found on opening night when the heavens opened just as the orchestra struck up the
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Cinderella might be an age old fairy tale, but the sentiment rings true today. A young woman is trapped in slavery and treated abysmally. While the rich around her have power and mobility, she can only dream of a better life as she fights to survive. However, where the story veers from reality is that unlike
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With all the answers, all the proof of our lives and of others at our finger tips, memory is – most ironically – becoming a thing of the past. On the other hand we’re recording more of our lives than we ever have before – and to what end? These very millennial problems – the juggernaut of
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My thinking, for some years now, is that as one nears ‘the end’, a round of applause is owed. For getting through, if nothing else. I love that Stephanie Lake’s newest work, Skeleton Tree: 13 meditations on death and loss, begins with just such an ovation. What follows is a series of reflections we are
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