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What a vile piece of art is Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. What a toxically sexist, nefariously homophobic, grossly classist, shameless celebration of undue privilege and abject narcissism. So why is this musical treatment of his novel, making its Australian debut at the Hayes Theatre, so much fun? Oh, it’s transgressive, we’re told, a satire
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Darwin has a strong cultural heartbeat. Its beginnings can be traced to creatives who have come and gone and to many who remain, their influence shaping our perceptions and narratives about place. There is a thirst for visual representation from artists that habituate in this place. One of these artists consummating our desire for iconography
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For an unadaptable novel, Tim Winton’s cherished Cloudstreet sure has been adapted a lot. Just a couple of years ago there was the admirable opera version (State Opera of South Australia). The inevitable prestige television mini-series (Foxtel) landed in 2010. There was even a radio play (ABC Radio National) back in the ‘90s. The most
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Fire and Blood – the Targaryen family words are as much a warning as they are of a description of their close ties to dragons. For the first time in a long time, the citizens of Westeros were reminded of the true horror that implies. After eight seasons of set-up, ‘The Bells’ finally delivered upon
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The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is in Melbourne until May 23 and in Canberra from May 22-25. Hannah Carrodus reviews three of its highlights. Click on film title for details and times. The Panama Papers “Who’s surprised that bad guys hide their money? Nobody is saying that’s a surprise,”McClatchy reporter Kevin Hall muses in The
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By Shane Murphy
I’ve never seen a Butoh performance, so I had no idea of didn’t know what to expect of Butoh Out!. I’m not sure that I’m a lot clearer now, or what I saw at Friday’s (May 3) show is different to other performances in its season. Butoh is, says Wilipedia, “a form of Japanese dance theatre that
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What comes next? While those watching Game of Thrones may be waited with bated breath for each new hour or so, for the characters time marches on regardless. Despite conquering their greatest supernatural enemy, they still need to clear the bodies from the fields, tend to their wounds and revel in their victory. After fighting for
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Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in the Mississippi Delta anymore. There’s not a cotton plant in sight. It’s all glass, marble, flat screens and sleek Scandinavian furniture in Sydney Theatre Company boss Kip Williams’ revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Big Momma’s European shopping spree has produced a strange modernist aesthetic (set
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Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery: Rosie Weiss Part of the sprawling Climarte Festival, ‘In the Valley’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is a group show of art made around the environs of the peninsula over a long period. Most interesting among the paintings and photographs is a whole gallery given over to local artist Rosie Weiss. A
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For the entire length of Game of Thrones, it has been the Night King and the White Walkers who have been presented as the overarching true villains of the piece. For eight seasons we’ve had it drummed into us that the battle against the dead was really all that mattered. The very first scene of
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