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Daily Review is proud to present actor Neil Pigot’s series of free, 60 minute podcasts in which he interviews artists from a range of disciplines about making art. In Episode Two he talks to the poet Peter Bakowski. To listen, click this link: Making Art: Episode Two Peter Bakowski (also available on iTunes). *** When people ask what I
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I’m done with the Thrill of Shared Outrage (TOSO) about Trump’s America, so here instead are some facts and ideas that offer a glimmer of hope that America might yet be rid of him. FACT: The bulk of Trump’s support comes from fear of losing status. Trump voters were not primarily concerned with being in
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With the addition of the Pete Evans-produced health documentary The Magic Pill to its library, Netflix continue a slate of commissions and acquisitions that are either bold or tone deaf, depending on your perspective. See also: the second season to the controversial 13 Reasons Why, among the most socially irresponsible television shows of the 21st
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The arts are profoundly important to our society. Rewarding artists adequately is not only morally right, it is essential if the arts are to flourish. Supporting artists is bound up with the importance of the arts. The case for the importance of the arts is not difficult to make, but it is not often made.
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Historically, theatres burn down, if not frequently, then at least with striking regularity. One of the most famous was Britain’s Drury Lane, which went up in smoke in 1809, leaving its owner, the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, financially ruined. Watching the flames from a nearby coffee shop he was asked by a friend what he
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Fiona Blair reviews the return season of Resident Alien starring Paul Capsis as Quentin Crisp and directed by Gary Abrahams. The show was performed in Melbourne at 45downstairs and at the Brisbane Powerhouse earlier this month and will be presented at the Seymour Centre in Sydney June 13-16. *** Resident Alien, is a curious piece. Not least because of
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Ten years since its origins as Club Briefs in Brisbane’s West End, Briefs comes home, studded with international accolades, to perform Close Encounters at Melt Festival. In Close Encounters, the Briefs spacemen have landed from the future to bring us hope – to let us know that everything is going to be okay. Hosted with
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Why revive a decades-old piece of musical theatre in 2018? It’s a question I, a sucker for a show tune, think about a lot. It’s a question some producers don’t ask enough. I’ve narrowed it down to two good reasons. Three if you count profit, obviously, but let’s put that ugliness aside. Four based on
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Performer Ash Flanders kicks off Blackie Blackie Brown in a hilariously high camp mode with his portrayal of a pink jacketed, chino short-wearing theatre luvvie home from a show, waxing sentimentally on the phone to his friend about Indigenous theatre that is “powerful, so powerful” (all those “orange lights”!). As the lights in his own apartment fail and
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Anyone who has read Joyce Carol Oates’ remarkable novel Black Water which is narrated by the fictional version of Mary Jo Kopechne as she is drowning in the car driven by the drunk Ted Kennedy in summer 1969, need not see this film. The novelist’s ability to get inside the head of the young political
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