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Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
Touch of the sun, inner happiness, Germaine Greer and too much garlic.
Reviews of the films Japanese Story; Gettin’ Square; 28 Days Later and Matchstick Men.
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
Matthew Klugman interviews Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom
John Button peruses the diaries of Harold Macmillan.
Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.