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This week, I dedicated my time to experiencing, what I was told to be, one of the most disturbing film adaptations to be filmed, boasting inappropriate relationships to make you squirm and wither like a dried apricot. What I found, however, was an examination into the mind of a sexual
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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
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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
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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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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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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