While the play was certainly an ode to the whimsy and abject lunacy of the student life, the ‘60s/‘20s juxtaposition provides an opportunity to reflect on the progresses, and regresses, of Australian culture and the university system (think HECs, lock-out laws, department mergers, the commodification of tertiary study, the inaccessibility of student housing).
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This piece discusses the conservatorship in retrospective, the human rights implications, and the depiction of Britney Spears as an entertainer, while we are the “ones who observe.”
If bookstores are at the forefront of shaping a literary culture, why is it that Australia’s strong community of indie bookstores yields such a fragmented literary identity?
Up At Night’s debut single throws listeners head first into a grungy, chaotic depiction of unrequited love.
As part of ArtsLab: Collide’s collaboration with 107 Redfern, Leah Herbert’s Fat Girl uncovers the all-too-hidden experience of growing up…
N.B. This review features minor spoilers Achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly tragic, Tommy Murphy’s seminal queer play Holding the Man is…
Wednesday 13 March News From Home, 5pm @ Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale SUDS Presents: RED (continues until March 23), 7pm @…
Whilst there were flaws in its execution, the production’s genuine attempt to bring something new to a play with such a fixed identity is admirable.
On March 15, 44 BCE a guy named Julius Caesar was assassinated by way of stabbing. As far as political assassinations go this was a pretty big deal.
As a former USyd student, Alexander sees their publication as a way to extend the folly, play of campus publications, and creative spaces beyond the institution’s walls and degree timespans.
