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This play was banned in the 1930s. Now it’s coming back (opens the original)
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In 1936, a planned staging of a play called Till The Day I Die was banned in Melbourne – because of how it portrayed the Nazis. The German Consulate had lobbied the then-federal government with their complaint So, the Melbourne-based New Theatre group got around the ban by performing the show on the back of a flat bed truck – which could quickly be moved if police approached. This month, as part of Melbourne Fringe, the show is coming back – and in a nod to the past, this version will be staged
New York Times bestseller confesses: I can’t write a simple love story (opens the original)
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Because she spent six years writing Dictionary of Lost Words and Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams was determined her next book would be a simple tale of love. The German Ward, released next week, is indeed a love story but, like New York Times bestseller Dictionary, it explores multiple themes from many perspectives. “In the end, it seems I’m incapable of writing just a simple, single storyline; it’s again a layered story. But at its heart, it is all about desire, the desire for something – a
Margaret Preston was called ‘Australia’s greatest artist’. But her legacy is complicated (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Any chance you have a moody painting featuring lobsters on your wall? This work was part of a callout from the National Gallery of Victoria last year when it went in search of four pieces by Margaret Preston. Since then, three have since been located in private collections. They will appear in a huge survey show at the National Gallery of Victoria opening this week, simply titled Margaret Preston
It was the critics’ pick of Cannes. Now the same film has won Melbourne’s $140,000 cinema award (opens the original)
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What would happen when a group of teenagers collides with 2000-year-old ruins? That is the premise of La Gradiva, the French film that has won the Melbourne International Film Festival’s top gong, the Bright Horizons Award. Director Marine Atlan and her creative team win $140,000, one of the richest film prizes around the world. She also co-wrote the film, with Anne Brouillet. Set mainly in Naples, La Gravida follows a group of high school students as they discover Pompeii – and themselves. “I w
‘Our mission is to love bomb them’: How this eclectic troupe wins over its audience (opens the original)
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It’s tricky to describe a Finucane & Smith show; no single genre encapsulates it. For co-founder and self-confessed “hustler of hope” Moira Finucane, it’s an “extraordinarily diverse, wild, unleashed ‘finucanelove’ version of cabaret”. Three decades on from its humble beginnings in the nightclubs of Melbourne, the troupe features dancers – including belly and butoh – divas, circus and burlesque performers, First Nations singers, contemporary takes on carny folk and more. Its latest show, Dance P
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