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ARTS AND CULTURE
The supernatural elements in The Orphanage provide an allegory for Laura's grief for her lost son. But it's the tangible, human elements that will leave both mind and gut churning late into the night. Be prepared to lose sleep.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 28 May 2008
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One of the teenage mums writes poetry. The Goths are into dragons and wizards. A girl in a wheelchair says, 'Melanie. A novel.' A tattooed youth drawls, 'Sean. Dirty realism.' Reading work aloud is voluntary but most are keen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Treachery tumult happiness hope.. Maddening fits of loneliness..
the satirist in him self-abusive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Woodward
- 23 May 2008
University education is predominantly text-based. The issue of whether there should be a stronger emphasis on the visual can be challenging, perhaps even threatening.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Hannah's tragic choices are underscored by her desire to neither deny nor conceal her Jewish roots. The questions regarding cultural identity, matrimonial propriety and parental instincts that pervade Un Secret are interesting, but are not articulated concisely.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 21 May 2008
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The ordered natural world of the garden is a place where disturbing thoughts can be annihilated, but only temporarily. Half a world away, brutal generals are using natural disaster to repress the weak and powerless.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bernard Appassamy
- 21 May 2008
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Before the advent of imported ready-to-wear in the late '70s, Mauritians had all their clothes and furnishings custom-made. Hassan's was the oldest fabric shop on the island and, in its heyday, the biggest. Hassan was a mountain-like figure, always on my horizon
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Heidi Ross and Margaret McCarthy
- 20 May 2008
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It's hard to make things rhyme.. When you're running short of time.. But you try to relax.. Cut the TV, phone and fax.. Play your favourite instrumental, light a taper.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 16 May 2008
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Between 1968 and 1981, performance spaces such as the Pram Factory in Melbourne facilitated a flourishing of the Australian theatre scene. Initially, the idea that the local product might be inferior was insufficient reason for preferring the import.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Helen Hunt has entered middle age gracefully, and appears
both physically and emotionally haggard in this proudly adult drama. An unashamed tearjerker, the real triumph of Then She Found Me is that it's also very
funny.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Today I returned from one of the areas most affected by the cyclone. I have seen the suffering of the graceful people who live in these parts.
Burma is in deep mourning, but we are doing what we can to help.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thom Sullivan
- 13 May 2008
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Cattle and kangaroos graze icy grass.. and a grey sky winces.. And in a further window.. a light snaps on to the slow sounds.. of life stirring within.
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