Placement
Books That Change Lives, Apparently Iranian existentialists, chick lit grandmas and spitting in Morse code
How to win the Facebook competition to see who has the most exotic home library.
Playmaking in Pyrmont Bringing history to life in ‘The Sugar House’
“My own grandfather, Roy, had worked as a fitter and turner at the Colonial Sugar Refinery, which dominated this peninsula for so long.”
City of Forgetting Rats, cranes, rubble and politicians
"The Sydney skyline is home to more than 50% of Australia’s cranes."
Here be Monsters ‘Exclusion Zone’ at the Griffin Theatre’s Batch Festival
Inspired by ‘Stalker’, the classic Andrei Tarkovsky film, ‘Exclusion Zone’ is a theatrical expedition into the unknown heart of Kings Cross, inviting audiences out of their seats and into the streets.
The Folding of ‘Crinkling News’ Our only newspaper for children tossed in the bin
Now more than ever, children need to harness the skills of media literacy in order to navigate the world of 'fake news'.
Life is Beautiful and Bleak ‘Sami in Paradise’ at Belvoir Street Theatre
'Sami in Paradise' takes Nikolai Erdman’s comedy 'The Suicide' – written in late 1920s Stalinist Russia – and turns it into a laugh-out-loud tragedy of refugee life.
Ready Player One The games people play
In Steven Spielberg’s 'Ready Player One', the teenage Watts (Tye Sheridan) is locked into a contest for control of an expansive virtual reality platform, the OASIS.
The Long Goodbye Prince Alfred Municipal Pool
"Nothing ever looks emptier than an empty swimming pool."
Real(i)ty Bites Newtown’s knowledge class illusions
Newtown is like a real-life Facebook feed: we all agree on important moral matters, and only the foolish dissent.
Man with a Blue Cornflower A refuge in Paris for the music of The Apartments
When the lights of hope had gone out, a man in Paris was offering me a rope. And I would use that rope and climb out of the hole I found myself in.
The Day the Muesli Died It’s cricket, Jim, but not as we know it
“I was utterly shattered. I thought our cricket captains were gods. I'll never buy an air conditioner off one again.”
Nick Cave Premonitions of Love
“The impulse was to hide. But it turns out that being forced to grieve openly basically saved us.”