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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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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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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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When Bishop Michael Curry, the African American head of the American Episcopal Church, went off script at the wedding of Meghan and Harry and launched into a riveting and chaotic monologue about love, he turned a Royal Wedding into the greatest theatrical moment on live TV so far this century. All those lefty republicans who studiously
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“La Mama theatre is a Melbourne masterpiece, a critically important part of our theatre history and living performance ecology,” writes Carrillo Gantner of the tiny Carlton theatre founded 51 years ago by Betty Burstall. La Mama, arguably the birthplace of contemporary Australian theatre, was destroyed by fire as a result of an electrical fault early on Saturday morning. Gantner,
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These are the freedoms we cherish: the freedom not to be asked for identification for no reason, the freedom not to be suspected of being an enemy of the state. The freedom not to be frogmarched out of an airport terminal. The freedom, when asked for identification, to say no. The freedom not to be
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Whenever a budget is handed down, I, like any self-respecting Australian artist, immediately check to see how much of our country’s investment in its arts and culture has been appropriated to make way for corporate tax cuts. By recent standards, this latest Federal budget is a good one. We only lost $89 million, and thankfully
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