Love, jealousy, fear, passion, returning again to be held captive by love, jealousy, fear, passion. Overcome by the swooning, narcotic hope that it will be different, next time around.
Work Tagged ‘Arts reviews’
My Generation – William Yang (Performance Space)
The Brag, February 2010
If a story is good and the characters are strong, a great storyteller will relay it with little fuss. Photographer William Yang knows this well. He glides out from the darkness to stand in front of a simple podium as two large screens bloom into life behind him, into another era, showing the first of the evening’s photographs. He begins the story.
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Geometries of Attention – Astrid Lorange and René Christen (Serial Space)
First published in The Brag
February, 2010
Like straining to hear a salacious conversation on the train, the three works in Geometries of Attention don’t come easily, but they bring thrilling, furtive pleasures.
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This kind of ruckus – review (Performance Space)
The Brag,
September 14, 2009
First published in The Brag street press, or here.
There’s a tendency to steel yourself prior to a play about sexual violence; to assume you’ll leave feeling battered and brutalised, just as a victim of rape does. The topic is often treated with gruelling heavy-handedness, like this were the only fair way to communicate the devastating impact of sexual violence.
Unit 46 – review (Factory Theatre)
The Brag,
July 7, 2009
Do people really talk to themselves in full sentences? Not really, no. But the two actors in Unit 46 do, for the entire duration of the play. (more…)