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Swan Lake: Loch na hEala An interview with the choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan
“To be really upfront with you, I’m not a fan of classical ballet,” he says. “I don’t believe them, I don’t think it’s truth.”
A Short Note About Matt Finish Ghosts in the Machine
"He ripped a Winfield Red pack at the seams and carefully pencilled the lyrics in square capitals."
Midnight Music Jep And Dep
“We play music all the time, whenever we can...it’s our oxygen.”
Leaving the Panic Room ‘Hir’ at Belvoir Street Theatre
"It's not an easy play, it's a problematic play,” says Williams. “And it’s not a PC play."
A Ghost Story Taking the life-and-death pulse of separation
'A Ghost Story' does something new: it takes a ghost as its subject matter and its central character. It isn’t about demons or malevolence, but loneliness and wonder.
When It Is All Just About Okay John Cheever and his flower of confusion
Maybe there is the warm, uncomplicated glow that comes over us when, after so much time and so much hurt, things are finally just about okay.
Life Drawing Class Finding the naked truth
There’s a sudden and unexpected intimacy that comes with being the custodian of someone’s nudity...
Dunkirk All for one and one for all
We have the resolve to endure, even when it feels like the light is being snuffed out of this world.
Here’s As Good As Anywhere An interview with Don Walker, the songwriter for Cold Chisel and Tex, Don & Charlie
"A lot of the subject matter in my songs was subject matter I was trying to avoid, or it would have been best avoided. I don’t think there’s many people out there who go looking for experiences so they can write about them."
The Man in the Mirror Understanding the art behind David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’
"The real power of the works of Lynch and Bacon and Goya has always been that you can wrap their neurotic power around you, however best they fit you, working their strange form of magnetism on the spirit."
Baby Driver Turn it up!
An action film with the heart of a musical.
Totalitarianism Today ‘1984’ at the Sydney Theatre Company
"You don’t need to cut out the opposition's tongue if the opposition keeps their tongue in their mouth."