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Off the Rails

Edward Scheer

There is a crowd spilling onto the streets, looking up at a man high above them on a window ledge. Bathed in spotlights, he stands ramrod...

Theatre

Awaken the Gods: Barrie Kosky’s ‘The Lost Echo’

Edward Scheer

Barrie Kosky is going to be pissed off. No booing, no heckling, no rotten fruit, no veal cutlets (yes, an Italian audience once threw these...

For the Love of Goat: Edward Albee’s 'The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?'

Edward Scheer

Australian theatre can be predictable: middle-class melodramas with the inevitable living-room setting, neurotic characters vaguely...

Crying Games

Edward Scheer

As viewers of this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament and the recent Commonwealth Games can attest, sportspeople crying on camera is...

A Short History of Pyromania

Edward Scheer

Clare is in tears. She has lost the farm where she grew up in the foothills of the Grampians. Not only that, but the farm next door went,...

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