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5 days ago | 
msn.com | Dee Jefferson
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
One evening in June last year, actor Ewen Leslie rocked up at Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre to find out what show he was performing that night and meet his fellow actors for the first time. All he had was an email telling him to prepare his best Werner Herzog impression, to wear comfortable clothes, and to expect content around “childhood, parenthood and mental health disorders”.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
At Bankstown Central, Abdul Abdullah has become lost. “Far out, this place is bigger than I thought” he texts while gamely trying to locate me, also lost. “I think I was in the basement.”It’s been three decades since the artist, then nine years old, fell in love with the labyrinthine and luminous shopping centre then known as Bankstown Square.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Dee Jefferson
At Bankstown Central, Abdul Abdullah has become lost. “Far out, this place is bigger than I thought” he texts while gamely trying to locate me, also lost. “I think I was in the basement.”It’s been three decades since the artist, then nine years old, fell in love with the labyrinthine and luminous shopping centre then known as Bankstown Square.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
The Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo will sink her teeth into role of Dracula in a one-actor adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic novel from the Australian creators of the Tony-nominated Broadway and West End hit The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
The character of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days was described as a “summit part” akin to Hamlet by Dame Peggy Ashcroft, one of the earliest Winnies. Only a daring actor would attempt the role: essentially a 90-minute monologue of looping, repetitive prose, and a prescriptive list of stage directions encompassing pauses and facial expressions. All while buried in earth – first from the waist, then the neck.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
If you could be on any reality TV show, which one would you choose? MM: I mean, should we just go on Temptation Island together? NO: OK. No! MM: I think the real answer would be The Traitors, right? Or Survivor. NO: I think I would go for Survivor or Alone. But if we wanted to [go on a show] together, then I think The Traitors. But guess what? I don’t want to go up against you on any show. How do you think you’d go on Alone, Nick? NO: I’m very stubborn.
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1 month ago | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Dee Jefferson
The Wrong Gods is inspired by the development project dubbed ‘India’s greatest planned environmental disaster’. Nadie Kammallaweera plays farmer turned activist Nirmala.Photograph: Brett Boardman Photography/BelvoirHaving made his name with the hugely successful Counting and Cracking – an epic three-hour work spanning multiple generations and featuring a massive set, 16 performers and many more characters – the Sydney playwright S Shakthidharan has downsized in his latest play.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
Having made his name with the hugely successful Counting and Cracking – an epic three-hour work spanning multiple generations and featuring a massive set, 16 performers and many more characters – the Sydney playwright S Shakthidharan has downsized in his latest play. The Wrong Gods covers just seven years over 100 minutes, with four actors on an almost bare stage. But do not be deceived: this is an ambitious work with big ideas on its mind.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson
Kendrick Lamar and Doechii – one of rap’s biggest names and arguably its fastest-rising star – are coming to Australia in December, as the headliners at the 2025 music festival Spilt Milk. The two US acts will headline Spilt Milk at Ballarat, Canberra/Kamberri, the Gold Coast and Perth/Boorloo, alongside US techno DJ Sara Landry. The festival has a rap-heavy lineup, with singer-songwriter and Euphoria star Dominic Fike and ScHoolboy Q also performing.
