Category: OPINION
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Drag Me to Hell – Film Review Friday
Perhaps one of the most dangerous possessions are grudges. The past can be held in the hands of people you would never guess. Think you’re the nicest person you know? Think again. Even the best people are not immune to being taken down by an enemy for a slight against them. So when Christine Brown…
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‘Lolita’ – Film Review Friday
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 deviant, which I ultimately found…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Flu Season’: The Snow Romance
‘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 by placing its setting in…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Antipodes’: A Writer’s Take on Actors Playing Writers
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 is a play about a…
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Champions – Film Review Friday
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 a backup point guard who gets…
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‘Clerks’ – Film Review Friday
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 plans today or they’ll successfully guilt you…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Iphigenia Project’: The Delirium of Grief and Warfare
‘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 and grief following the sacrifice…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Justified and Ancient’: Chaotically Captivating
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 the then representatives of the…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Chekhov in Hell’: Loose in London
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. The coming weeks will see The Iphigenia Project, Life…