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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
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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
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UOW's theatre season is pumping this year, with some exciting performances that will be blowing the roof off of the Julian Broadbent building. This week we have Dan Rebellato's Chekhov in Hell, directed by Peta Downes, appearing from the 26th to the 28th of October 2023.
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You’re in bed, you just woke up from a sudden sound you can’t exactly remember, but it almost scared you to death. You’re staring up at the ceiling, you don’t want to go back to sleep, if you go to sleep, whatever made that sound might
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Walking down a dirt road, through bushes and abundant trees, you come across a sign. It’s clearly misspelled, you look beyond and see millions of crosses and tombstones. “Lucky”, “Rover”, “Spot”, we all wish they were able to come back to us. Browsing on Stan again, and taking a
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UOW graduate Irelish Barker and 2nd year student Anna Krywyj Moore are both emerging artists working with Shopfront Arts Co-Op and Q Theatre Penrith in an artist residency program called ArtsLab. Along with two other artists, they have put together works for the ArtsLab: Drifters festival taking place at
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Martinus Dwi Marianto, ‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak,’ (55cm x 55cm, direct file transfer on canvas, 2023). According to historian and Indonesianist, Dr Rob Goodfellow (PhD UOW) “Something happens when we are confronted by authentic novelty.” By this, Goodfellow means, “Something so inventive that there are few clear terms of
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Content warning: article contains descriptions of death and injury in armed conflict Paul Jones is a photographer, photojournalist and writer. He's covered it all: Nelson Mandela's campaign trail in 1994, the Rwandan Genocide, the Second Intifada in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, the recent coup
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Thursday night, I walked into a performance of ‘The Future Show’ completely blind with no idea what it was about or who was performing, and I left that performance feeling recognised and acknowledged as a person. ‘The Future Show’ is, in short, a series of memories of the future presented
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You’re strapped to a chair, you don’t know where you are or what time it is. You feel like you’ve just come back from the dead with the worst hangover ever experienced. Before your eyes can even adjust, you see a small figure squeaking towards you, a
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A Theatre Review by Paige Jenkins and Skyla Yorke. Theatre lovers filled the foyer of UOW’s Jillian Broadbent building on Friday night to watch the first of many shows put on by the University's theatre majors, ‘Juliet and Romeo’, directed by Tim Maddock. The performance, a final
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It’s the coke-fueled era of the 1980s, ‘Scarface’ is in theatres bursting with gratuitous violence, everybody’s tuning in for the Live Aid concert where Freddy Mercury will give possibly his greatest performance and the government is cracking down on the rotten and filthy video nasties that plague