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).
Author: Anthony-James Kanaan
It is difficult to understand oneself without there being an environment to contextualise that life, and it is more difficult to understand environmental decay in a world that lacks artistic continuity.
The impact that a decade of Liberal governance has had on the area’s growth is undeniable –– but not necessarily positive.
“Know thyself,” a moribund maxim: even the neighbours consume an idea of themselves which is make-believe.
