The Podcast Review: The Slate Culture Gabfest
In The Podcast Review, guest reviewer Dion Kagan takes a look at a highlight of the international podcasting spectrum. There’s a moment in first-year humanities tutorials when, in the face of a certain...
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The Blackmail goes offline
OFFLINE is a print edition of The Blackmail. The Blackmail has been dishing out Aussie-centric popular culture, art culture and subculture online since 2009. As with countless other magazines and...
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The Tennessee torpor: ITCH Productions’ Vieux Carré
ITCH’s Vieux Carré Imagine the worst share house you have ever set foot in, multiply its misery by ten and you will have something approximating the milieu of Tennessee Williams’ 1977 play Vieux Carré....
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Canberra: so hot right now
Bert Flugelman’s sculpture Cones 1982, in the National Gallery’s Sculpture Garden. Image courtesy of National Gallery of Australia In 2010 the Fairfax press wondered if Brisbane was Australia’s new...
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Godfather of Carnage: Dance of Death at Malthouse Theatre
‘Dance of Death’ with Belinda McClory and Jacek Korman The underside of the marriage plot is the marriage-as-blood-sport plot. In 1900 the so-heralded ‘father of modern Swiss literature’, August...
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#anxietydream: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at Malthouse Theatre
Right before his performance of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit at the Brisbane Powerhouse in February, ABC broadcaster Richard Fidler tweeted: Waiting backstage to perform the play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit....
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Front row at the theatre wars: Simon Stone’s The Cherry Orchard
Photo by Jeff Busby By the time I belatedly sat down in the Sumner theatre to see Simon Stone’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard I had other dramas on my mind. Shadowing the reception of MTC’s...
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A petri dish of sexual politics: Showtime’s Masters of Sex
Masters of Sex is a new quality US drama about sexologists William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson. In the pantheon of twentieth century researchers who wrenched sexuality from the dark ages of...
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In defence of Adoration
Just from watching the film trailer you can intuit that Adoration, the recent Australian/French co-production directed by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel), would screen to some unsympathetic...
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Gushing: Trunk Books’ Blood
Before I knew it I was nursing my babe and the smell of frying onion was wafting up the stairs. Spouse and midwife had stripped the placenta of its membranes on the kitchen cutting-board, and now he...
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