Alethea Kinsela
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Elegant, vintage, rough at the edges, Trades Hall is a venue worth seeing.
This historic building is a labyrinth of passages and stairwells that wind up, down and around and open out onto ornate, carpeted foyers and trendy warehouse spaces.
Like the advertising material in the dank subways of London’s Underground, posters follow the gradient of the stairs, and heavy steel beams hold the roof centimetres from your head. Each step of the main staircase has sunken bowls from the many thousands of feet that have trampled it over the centuries.
There are …
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Dark, humorous and weird, Strangelove the Musical is an adaptation of the 1964 classic film Dr. Strangelove. Tristan Coelho’s music is a fantastic addition to the already bizarre story. Nuclear warfare presented through song is not something you see every day, but this show is definitely worth a look.
Jon Williams is superb as the maniacal Brigadier General Ripper who torments Group Captain Mandrake, played by Kip Williams. Think comedic versions of Kurt and Marlow stuck in a small room with a six-barrelled machine gun. The things Ripper gets up to …
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Set during the 1960 Algerian civil war, Lieutenant Roque (Vincent Martinez) is weary of the tedious conflicts and longs for the fighting to end. A general feeling of unease permeates Roque’s unit, and there are frequent displays of guarded and open racism directed towards the four harkis (French soldiers of North African decent). To the locals, the harkis are traitors, and to their comrades, they are filth. The harkis’ ability and willingness to communicate with the locals fuels the suspicion and distrust amongst the other French soldiers. When treacherous but …
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Helen Thorn is Arty Farty will make you laugh, groan and squirm. It is not, as I expected, a collection of sardonic anecdotes and derisive one-liners that turns art lovers into fuming tatters. Rather, it is an accurate expose of the world of visual, written and performing arts. Thorn’s cringing truth takes the likes of trendy high school dance teachers and glamorous university humanities professors and shows them for what they really are: pompous, daggy and ridiculous.
Through an empty picture frame, Thorn delivers an autobiography of sorts. The antics …
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