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‘The Flu Season’, written by Will Eno and directed by Michelle Fry as part of their honours course, was a fascinating and deeply moving production, playfully pulling between sadness and sharp humour. Set in the depressing scene of a psychiatric centre, ‘The Flu Season’ exposes the expanse of human experience
Friday 10th of November, I had the pleasure of attending UOW’s Music Gradfest. This event was hosted by the third-year creative arts, music students of Wollongong Uni. Mesmerised is an understatement. These were regular people who you’d pass by casually on campus, but Friday night at the Jillian
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A couple weeks ago we had a chat with UOW third year music students Tom Price, Ella Grace, Jess Anderson and Daniel Munro about their music, their time at uni and the Music GradFest held earlier this month. Get to know the musicians below and commit their names to memory
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Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The hype was real. Safe to say both bands dominated the stages just as they did in their impactful era of the 2000s, and despite their prolonged absence,
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As we approach the new year, we yearn for more freedom and independence, we’re another year older and wiser. We want to explore the world, fight for ourselves, get amongst nature. We want to become human beings. We might want to start fresh, eliminate any previous version of ourselves
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Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC All-women performance group, Frumpus, returned to IPAC with their new show, Landed. Their nonsensical performance left audiences with a wonderful but strange feeling of confusion. The group, made up of Cheryle Moore, Lenny Ann Low and Stephanie Hart, formed in the
Wollongong, a city I love. Wollongong has been more than just a location; it’s a community where I’ve forged meaningful connections, found a new place to call home, and experienced a unique way of life. From the warmth of newfound friendships to the breathtaking beauty of the beach,
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DISCLAIMER: As a reviewer and writer, I feel it is my duty to disclose my closeness to this play to maintain reviewer integrity. Full disclosure, I know most of this cast and crew well and one of them is in fact my boyfriend, Mitchell Lee. The Antipodes by Annie Baker
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First, Woody Harrelson starred alongside Wesley Snipes in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, a comedy film in which Harrelson is a conman, teaming up with Snipes in order to bet on himself in a basketball game and win big. Next, Harrelson starred alongside Will Ferrell in ‘Semi-Pro’ where he plays
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You wake up to your ringtone, eyes blurry, you reach out and grab it to see it’s work. Your manager or your co-worker whose guts you hate is ringing you up for a shift. Either one of two things are going to happen, you’ll tell them you have
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‘The Iphigenia Project’ follows the production of two plays, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra by Suhayla El-Bushra and Lulu Raczka, respectively, that independently and correspondingly explores the sacrificial burden of duty and grief amidst a background of war. Clytemnestra, while not as action-packed as its predecessor, demonstrates a necessary meditation on love
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The Scream is a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The Scream is one of the five most famous paintings in the world. The Scream was painted in 1893 In the background of the painting are two men dressed in black wearing black top hats. These two men were