In the wake of several recent and highly successful biographical films about women performed by high status actors (Streep – Thatcher, Mirren – The Queen and less recently Woolf – Kidman), it is interesting to see Susanna Hislop here working within that genre with her collaborator Anna Ledwich and seeking her own autobiographical story within […]

Reverend Billy creates a church, a congregation, this is true preaching, saying what needs to be said. Finding the words in the moment, so that what might be pastiche in less potent hands is delivered with the full force of conviction, with the urgency of the need to save us from ourselves. Only this is […]

Whichever way you add the numerals of your birth date together they will come to the same thing. You add and add until you reach a single digit. That number is you, you are that number. This is fate, this means something, the day you were born sets you on a path. Thus the laws […]

There is nothing better than sitting at the feet of an elder telling you the story of her life. This particular elder, Lynn Ruth Miller, is a wonderfully natural storyteller. A person’s life is unique and you know you are getting a unique experience here. She enters the tiny space with the audience forming a […]

A cheerful woman is driven into a baleful rage by public art she cannot escape, the company enters the stage to sit and read through all the emails they sent regarding their residency in LA, and finally they present the show they have been working on. This is the potted synopsis. Every moment of this […]