James Graham

Jun 15, 2024 | absolutetheatre.com.au | Paul Kiely |Eric Scott |James Graham

By Paul KielyInkBy James GrahamDirected by Louise FletcherA New Theatre ProductionNew TheatreKing Street, NewtownSeason: 29 May – 29 June 2024               Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes (with interval)Something revealed in the opening scene of INK was Rupert Murdoch’s quandary about whether to dine on lobster or a very rare scotch fillet. With a taste for things rare and bloody, it seems an appropriate metaphor for how Rupert does business.

Jun 2, 2024 | artshub.com.au | James Graham |Peter Hackney

Today he’s a global media behemoth, so it’s easy to forget that Australian-born Rupert Murdoch was once little more than a colonial upstart with a dream and a hell of a lot of chutzpah. At least, that was his standing in the UK in 1969 – the place and time we meet the mogul in Ink, James Graham’s riveting play about Murdoch’s acquisition of The Sun. While The Sun became a wildly popular red-top tabloid, it wasn’t always that way.

May 30, 2024 | australianstage.com.au | James Graham |Richard Cotter

Who, what, where, when, why. The old school five Ws mantra of journalism. For years it was the catechism for Fleet Street news hounds until a mongrel maverick named Murdoch, a cocky upstart Colonial took over a struggling sheet, The Sun, turned it into a tear away tabloid, and replaced Why? With What’s next? The rising of The Sun and the sunset of England’s traditional press peerage is the enthralling, sometimes appalling story presented in James Graham’s sprawling, epic play, Ink.

May 7, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | James Graham

A mascot to be feared and proud of: Bernard Hill as Yosser in the 1982 TV series Boys From the Blackstuff Credit: BBC The ironic tragedy of Yosser Hughes, the chronically unemployed asphalter in Alan Bleasdale’s drama Boys From The Blackstuff, is that he was screaming and wailing into a void. No one was listening.

Mar 5, 2024 | thecarousel.com | Marie-Antoinette Issa |James Graham

Luke McLeod may have made his television debut in 2017’s season of The Bachelorette. But there’s so much more to the man than (not) receiving a rose from Ms Sophie Monk. In fact, in the year’s since his first small-screen appearance Luke has carved himself quite the reputation as one of the most passionate advocates and male voices for practical mindfulness.