I’m an opal miner’s daughter who grew up living the clichéd, outback childhood. Yes, I did have a pet kangaroo: a joey that never grew up. Yes, there were dingoes. And yes, they took our pet baby…goat and the joey. Sadly, there wasn’t broadcast TV. So I indulged in dreaming. I still do.
In my 20s I ran away from a conventional suburban Sydney existence to the theatre – several times. I even studied theatre and film at Uni (UNSW) and Fine Art and Jewellery at TAFE. Now I just blog about it at www.craftytheatre.wordpress.com .
I love storytelling on the page and on the stage. A history and Sci-fi buff, the next time I run away, I hope it’s in the Tardis.
Australian award-winning playwright, Daniel Keene’s absurdist comedy, Life Without Me, is not the usual fare you would expect from a suburban theatre company. With themes belonging to a theatre tradition epitomised by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, you would …
Fringe theatre in Sydney is thriving with the Flying Nun by BrandX at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre (ESCAC). Upfront, outrageous, comedic and thought provoking, their current season of short run productions – 2 nights long – promises …
Ceramicist Kirsten Coelho’s largest exhibition in Sydney is currently gracing an upstairs gallery at the UNSW Galleries in Paddington. The space is atmospheric with dim lighting and strategically positioned spotlights to best show off her delicate, predominantly white forms with …
Joyful, feminine, enigmatic, visionary. Hilma af Klints monumental works are a delight to stand before and allow oneself to become absorbed by the brilliance of their colours, sinuous lines and symbols. Modern, contemporary, abstract, but over one hundred years old, …
With his exhibition of works, Luscus, mixed media artist James Mc Grath intends to challenge the viewer’s innately isolated lens. He has other stated aims as well referencing the current demise of our natural world, climate change denial and …
Like mystery? Like Hollywood goofballs? A satire on genre? A sendup of preening thespians? Big comedy, big acting, big laughs? Then head down south to the Arts Theatre Cronulla.
Director, Tom Richards, Assistant Directors, Meili Bookluck and Caitlain Cowan…
