3rd place in the Non-Fiction section of the Honi Soit Writing Competition 2023.
Author: Zoe Le Marinel
If you have any appreciation for the strange, the unusual, the morbid, then to miss this double bill would be a genuine tragedy.
Anyone at the University can volunteer for research participation. I got into it to earn that little 5% boost, but if you want to try out some random cool stuff, and give your little data point, try it out!
The bitterness of the first act sets up a sense of sweetness in the second. I was amazed that characters so initially unlikable — who I had set myself against so strongly — could win my heart with their attempts to love each other.
The show is a sweet medicine for anyone exhausted with life’s twists and turns, and a tonic for anyone in need of a laugh.
In my ongoing preoccupation with pirates and Peter Pan in particular, I have dedicated myself to the study and analysis of his character. I can therefore pass judgement on any interpretation.
It’s like a night in with that sophisticated friend who you only see on rare occasions.
In Robson’s production, every character is richly flamboyant and impossible to look away from.
There’s a reason the gays know how to party. Partying has always been society’s way of loosening the bonds, undoing the rules for a few hours, and that’s queerness’ forte.
Dressing how you want, how you really want, is a profoundly genuine and reflective form of self-expression.
