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Malthouse: Wild Surmise

Wild Surmise | Reviewed on: Thursday 15 November 2012
Malthouse: Wild Surmise

Jane Montgomery Griffiths says her adaption of Dorothy Porter’s 2004 verse novel Wild Surmise “is an enactment of the act of love that is reading”. Until now, I hadn’t read Dorothy Porter. I’m nervous of verse novels; I think they’re a bit pretentious. How great to be so wrong. This Malthouse production celebrates…

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On The Misconception of Oedipus

On The Misconception of Oedipus | Reviewed on: Thursday 06 September 2012
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On The Misconception of Oedipus

Whether or not the balance between dark humour and an unsettling atmosphere has been perfected in Tom Wright’s modern take on an ancient Greek tragedy, On The Misconception of Oedipus is even more grotesque than the original, and strongly confronting. Focusing largely on the parents burdened with a pre-determined and…

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Lorca would love this Wedding

Blood Wedding | Reviewed on: Thursday 26 July 2012
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Lorca would love this Wedding

I wonder what Federico García Lorca would think about Blood Wedding being performed in Australia 80 years after he wrote it. His work is so connected to Spain before the 1936–39 Civil War (it is believed he was assassinated by right wing forces days before the war broke out), but great writing comes…

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Meditation on life and love

Another Lament | Reviewed on: Wednesday 06 June 2012
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Meditation on life and love

Another Lament, described as an improvisation on Henry Purcell’s music, is a reprisal of a 2010 Chamber Made season presented in a private living room. An enigmatic piece, with just one vocalist and an obscure narrative, it contains enough delights to sustain interest for the hour or so of the…

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The Histrionic

The Histrionic | Reviewed on: Saturday 14 April 2012
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The Histrionic

Until I hit Google, I didn’t  know about Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. A quote from the New York Times that his works are “the most significant literary achievement since World War II” crops up a lot. As an over-educated reader, I guess I should know him, but The Histrionic hasn’t encouraged me to seek…

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MICF: Tina C

Tina C: Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word | Reviewed on: Thursday 22 March 2012
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MICF: Tina C

An Englishman dresses an American woman to present a lecture-cum-corroboree-cum-sing-a-long to white middle class theatre goers. She doesn’t understand that we celebrate the battles we lost, but she knows that Mabo isn’a a dance and thinks it’s time she explained Indigenous reconciliation to us. With so many levels of wrong, Tina C…

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