Review

Theatre – Exit the King

Catherine Skipper · Saturday, March 9, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Exit the King, written in 1962, is often described as the most accessible of Ionesco’s plays, and is generally read as a lament for human mortality.

Book – Our Birds (Ŋilimurruŋgu Wäyin Malanynha)

Marjorie Lewis-Jones · Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Siena Stubbs was just 12 years old when she captured the bird photos that feature in this delightful book – birds she’d seen in and around Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land all her life.

Film – Stan & Ollie

Lindsay Cohen · Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are regarded as the greatest comedy partnership in movie history, yet Stan & Ollie isn’t particularly funny.

‘Buzzing Minds’ brims with boarding house residents’ creativity

South Sydney Herald · Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Buzzing Minds: A Sydney Noise Compilation is the brain child of Jason Simonit (Jay), a case worker at Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC).

Orchard Gallery marks first ten years

Hayley Megan French · Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment

In early February I met with the Rev. Andrew Collis and Catherine Skipper in the manse studio to reflect on 10 years of the Orchard Gallery (South Sydney Uniting Church).

Theatre – Murder in the Garden

Catherine Skipper · Wednesday, February 27, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Murder in the Garden, presented by Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden in association with Théâtre Excentrique and Alliance Francaise, offers the mystery-loving public the opportunity to become detectives.

Music – Julia Holter, ‘Aviary’

Stephen Webb · Monday, February 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Julia Holter, ‘Aviary’ Domino, 2018

Film – The Favourite and Vice

Lindsay Cohen · Monday, February 18, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Apart from the fact both films are nominated for the Oscars there’s little they have in common, apart from the hours spent in their make-up departments.