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Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at IPAC
Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at the IPAC theatre from the 16th to the 19th of October. I had the pleasure of speaking with director, Priscilla Jackman where we spoke about the story and context of the play in a short interview. Here’s what I found: SERENA: Could you start with an overview…
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Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from 5th-15th September
Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from the 5th – 15th September. I had the pleasure of attending on opening night and the performance quite literally had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. The stage was lavishly set as a 1950s living room of a newly-wed couple’s grand…
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Merrigong presented Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk] at the IPAC
I recently had the privilege of attending “Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk],” a powerful dance and theatre performance at the IPAC Merrigong Theatre. This thought-provoking show combined evocative dance with poignant acting to address the harrowing experiences of wrongly imprisoned Indigenous Australians, while also touching on the broader themes of injustice and displacement. The performance opened…
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Donné Restom presents two new shows in Sydney Fringe this week: an interview
Donné Restom, a Central-Coast-based playwright, storyteller, singer and mum, presents two new productions at the Sydney Fringe Festival this week. ‘Kink in the Tale: Storytelling for Grownups’ – a collection of stories about sex, intimacy and our kinky quirks told live on stage and ‘Everyone in my family is dead or about to be’ –…
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The Apartment – Film Review Fridays
The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder “Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.” You will never have an experience like watching Billy Wilder’s 1960 masterpiece The Apartment for the first time.…
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EdCon Day 3: Education or Press Conference?
On the third day of EdCon, the schedule showed a queer office plenary but the socialist students running it had a different plan. When students started calling it the “free speech plenary”, a third of the whole plenary stood up and left the conference resulting in quite a bit of chaos as the socialist faction…
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EdCon Day 2: Warfare First, Welfare Second
On Day 2 of Edcon, we started with the plenary from the welfare office where we discussed issues such as the food insecurity among students, accommodation and student life on campuses more broadly. The first question posed to the panel was, ‘how can our councils support students to address food insecurity?’ Melbourne’s University stated they…
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UOW’s Theatre and Performance’s ‘Fractured’: Four Part Play
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending a play put on by students at UOW called Fractured. It was a collection of four plays in which the first three were written by the celebrated socialist-feminist playwright Caryl Churchill: Kill, Glass and Bluebeard’s Friends. These plays delve into harsher themes such as love and…
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Changes for UOW coming in this year’s federal budget
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down this year’s federal budget, the third of the Albanese government and recording a surplus of $9 billion. The main focus of this budget is alleviating cost-of-living pressures. It also introduces a “Future Made in Australia” initiative that includes a number of changes to the higher education system. The…