20 Sept 2014
MAGIC ANIMAL FRIENDS: POPPY MUDDLEPUP’S DARING RESCUE – Children’s Book Review
Best friends Jess and Lily are off on another magical adventure. This time they have to help wake up Patch Muddlepup – Poppy’s twin brother – after the evil…
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20 Sept 2014
Nova Heart: Reinventing Modern Electro Sound… Their Way – OzAsia Review
When Nova Heart eventually take to the stage, later even than their advertised delay, the surprises begin immediately. Billed as a ‘modern electro’ band, using…
20 Sept 2014
STONE MATTRESS: Nine Humourous Stories To Mess With Your Head – Book Review
The esteemed and prolific Atwood’s latest is an interconnected (but not always obviously), often darkly funny selection of nine short stories that tend to…
20 Sept 2014
THE BONE CLOCKS: A Genre Mash-Up From The Writer Of Cloud Atlas – Book Review
Every now and then you read a book so ludicrously original, so incandescent with intelligence and written with such audacity that you are stunned into an…
17 Sept 2014
Rolling Thunder Vietnam: Songs That Defined A Generation – Interview
During the ‘60s and the political turmoil, Australian troops were sent to fight alongside the Americans in the Vietnam War. The nights in the jungle were hot…
16 Sept 2014
Wunderkammer: Exquisite Acrobatics And Sexy Burlesque From Brisbane’s Circa – Interview
A show that celebrates the raw, unblemished skills of those in front of us, instead of the distraction of too many costume changes and busy sets, Wunderkammer…
15 Sept 2014
An Interview With Robert Maillet, Star Of Monster Brawl (And Lots Of Other Stuff)
The following interview conducted with actor and wrestler Robert Maillet (a.k.a. ‘Kurrgan’ and the ‘Acadian Giant’) via Skype from his home in East Canada was…
15 Sept 2014
Hiroko Watanabe And Above The Clouds: Beautiful Calligraphy And Hypnotic Japanese Sounds – OzAsia Review
Something of enormous delight in attending a show within OzAsia is the tantalising unknown, and this show was no different. Expect the unexpected…
15 Sept 2014
Synergy Percussion Meets Noreum Machi: Traditional Meets Contemporary – OzAsia Review
OzAsia brings so many delectable acts to our city, it is hard to decide what to go and see. So much can appear to be quite literally foreign, as we encounter…
13 Sept 2014
Ibsen In One Take: An Avant-Garde Exploration Of Chinese Theatrical Convention – OzAsia Interview
Inspired by many of the works of prolific Norwegian dramatic playwright Henrik Ibsen – including The Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts and An Enemy…
13 Sept 2014
Misalliance: George Bernard Shaw Comes To The Adelaide Repertory Theatre – Review
I first encountered the work of George Bernard Shaw as an impressionable young man in my undergraduate years and was enthralled at his ability to make…
11 Sept 2014
RUIN – Love And Death In The Face Of Brutality – OzAsia On Screen Review
The title says it all really. Ruin starts in a bad place and heads south from there. It’s hard to know what drives someone to make a film like this. In…