Robert Reid

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Robert Reid

Truth – the latest production at Malthouse Theatre – is a dramatisation of the events and controversies surrounding Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Presented as a partial documentary, it feels bafflingly outdated and out of step. This production comes from a top team. Patricia Cornelius is one of Australia’s most important contemporary playwrights, whose work is characterised by a sharp eye for social commentary combined with an intelligent rawness of expression.

2 months ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Robert Reid

From its relatively humble beginnings in the early 1980s as Gay Day, held in the concrete bunker under Olympic Park, Midsumma Festival has grown into an iconic event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. Before social media, the internet or even satellite television, the regional competitiveness between the states was more pronounced, and in some ways Midsumma emerged as a riposte to Sydney’s Mardi Gras. An official proposal for a festival was led by the Victorian AIDS Council in 1986.

Nov 15, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Robert Reid

A culture of pantomime never really took root in Australia. There isn’t the same kind of regional touring circuit as in Britain, nor the centuries of cultural drift from mummers companies and folk plays. Still, a kind of genetic memory of something called “panto” lingers here in the same way that mushy peas haunts the colonial memory, fragmentary recollections of cultural forms and the distant memories of grandparents’ retellings.

Oct 25, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Robert Reid

Set in the ruins of a post-World War II London, Alan Moore’s The Great When tells the story of a hapless young man who gets caught up in an intrigue of literary madness and magick. Dennis Knuckleyard works and lives in a run-down bookshop. The proprietress, Coffin Ada, is legendarily cantankerous, her sobriquet earnt not by the prodigious amount of cigarettes she smokes but by the murdered man rumoured to be buried in her backyard.

Jul 22, 2024 | pretzl.co | David Gelles |Rob Copeland |Kim Robinson |Robert Reid

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better. She co-founded an executive education company that helps people put the ideas in her books into practice. Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense YouTube, and DoubleClick teams at Google.