Review & Interview: Ordinary Ascension – A Hope
Ordinary Ascension – A Hope by Khaled SabsabiReview and Interview by Adam Phillip Anderson Community affects our lives before we begin to exist. The idea of the self, arises from people and places […]
Reviews
Review: Chewing Gum Dreams
Review of Chewing Gum DreamsThe Old Fitzroy TheatreBy Michaela ColeDirected by Bernadette Fam20 January – 19 February 2022 Trigger Warning: Domestic violence, colourism, sexual assault, racism I’m the first audience […]
Review: Jurrungu Ngan-ga
There’s an artistry to a boycott. It’s as much a political statement as it is an exercise in cohesion. The intercultural dance troupe Marrugeku know the power in resistance. In their latest […]
Review: 7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner
It had been less than twenty four hours prior to Darlinghurst Theatre opening their auditorium doors that so-called Australia rejoiced their genocidal colonial canon on the 26th. During her idiomatic […]
Review: Black Brass
Review of Black BrassBelvoir TheatreBy Mararo Wangai6-23 January On Thursday night, I sat amongst friends whose families are from Haiti, Namibia and Zimbabwe while we watched Black Brass, a 70-minute […]
Review: Kalaga Atu
I stand face to face with the sandstone façade of the Art Gallery of New South Wales with my pocket-sized Tongan fan in one hand and mobile phone in the […]
Art Review: Flowers and Fighter Jets
(Originally published in the exhibition booklet.) There’s anger in the eyes of the women Amani Haydar paints. There is strength and sadness as well, which by all accounts, is a reflection […]
TV Review: Addicted Australia
★★★★☆ First published in The Big Issue, 30 October 2020 Addicted Australia, a four-part docuseries from Blackfella Films (Filthy Rich and Homeless), provides viewers access to the lives of 10 everyday Australians struggling with addictions […]
Book Review: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Somewhere between wetting her pants during a standing ovation and sleeping with her conductor, violinist Jena Chung finds herself lonely. Set against a backdrop of Sydney suburbs […]
Book Review: Into the Suburbs
(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Christopher Raja’s Into the Suburbs is the author’s first foray into memoir, and documents his migration from Calcutta to Australia in the 80s. Drawn by the glamorous Australia of […]