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6 days ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | John Bailey |John Bailey
The full power of Daphne du Maurier’s writing is unleashed in new stage productions of The Birds and Rebecca. By John BaileyMay 9, 2025, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
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1 month ago | 
theage.com.au | Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
By Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar March 28, 2025 — 2.03pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From a performer who taps into Lynchian surrealism to a comedian who performs without pants, this year’s comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Last year choreographer Harrison Ritchie-Jones staged a short version of his upcoming show TANTRUM for 6. Some audience members told him it made them want to go home and scream. They meant it as the highest praise. Anyone familiar with the young dance maker’s works will know that they can elicit very unusual responses. Like laughter, for instance.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The first time Chinese-born composer Mindy Meng Wang visited Australia, she was disappointed. Having been told that Melbourne was the most European of its cities, she had pictured the south of France, or the canals of Venice. She got West Brunswick instead.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey |Hereward Ohlson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Over the last four decades, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki has written 47 books. He’s bursting with passion for the wonders of the universe: why black holes have no size, say, or how to make microphones out of spiders’ webs. He’s not so comfortable when the subject is himself. Dr Karl’s autobiography A Periodic Tale took him years to get around to.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Once upon a time we imagined a future in which we all wore identical jumpsuits. Nowadays, we all just sound the same. Every character in the Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars universes speaks in the same quippy manner. Our literary scene is dominated by novels written in an identical, stripped-back and unaffected voice.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | John Bailey
Declan Furber Gillick's origin story sounds like that of any wannabe artist: "doing bits and pieces, working as a removalist, working in bars, or just not working. Doing it really on the cheap, skipping meals or stealing meals or skipping the bus and walking everywhere."That was back in 2018, when he first decided to become a playwright. He might have fit the stereotype of the starving artist, but he certainly wasn't a lazy one.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Actor Salme Geransar thought she and her family were the only Iranians in Australia when she moved here from Tehran at the age of four. Her new home on NSW’s Central Coast was a world away from the one she’d left. “I felt a lot of shame for being different and tried to hide any aspect of my Iranian-ness to fit in,” she recalls.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | John Bailey
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s rare that an athlete can reach the global stage in one sport, let alone two, but just a few years after representing Australia in disability rugby’s World Cup, Adam Hills is off to Italy this month to compete in the world championships for disability tennis.
