AustLit

'Young performers from Canberra Youth Theatre have collaborated with some of Canberra Dance Theatre's older dancers from the GOLD group to come up with gently amusing and insightful looks at human experience. Their script comes from the cast's own reflections upon their lives. The words are displayed on screen, spoken as disembodied voice overs, or live on stage. ...'

'Anyone half-familiar with Melbourne's indie theatre scene should at least have heard of The Rabble. For years the maverick company has mined literary sources – Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, The Story of O, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray – to produce visually stylish, intellectually provocative work that deploys gender as a potent and subversive dramatic force. ...'

'A few years ago, my writers' workshop, based in Bankstown, left a meeting to celebrate at the nearby sports club – a place that, despite its location and status as a glorified RSL, makes amazing pizza. I walked through the door without a second thought, as did the two Anglo-Australian men I was walking with. A few steps behind us was our colleague Mohammed, and as he entered the building he was immediately intercepted by security, asked to take off his hat and show his licence, and told not to give any cheek. ...'

'In his eighth book, The Fighter, Arnold Zable returns to the mid-century Carlton he celebrated in Scraps of Heaven (2004), a nostalgic novel that depicted a time well before the suburb was sterilised by gentrification, a time when it was still a knockabout working-class enclave and home to a first wave of postwar European immigrants. ...'