Category: Features – Archive

July 15, 2023 / Features - Archive

By Tony Wellington Monash University Publishing, $36.99 The fabled 1960s conjure some combination of idealism, collectivism, a popular music explosion, Civil Rights, the pill, Vietnam, adventurousness in other arts and mind-altering drugs. The 1970 demise of The Beatles came just as the idealism began to wane, and selfishness and narcissism…

July 11, 2023 / Features - Archive

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason remembers his first visit to Sydney for all the wrong reasons. This was when the band performed at Randwick Racecourse on a bitter winter’s day in 1971. “It was probably the coldest gig I’ve ever played,” Mason recalls on the phone from one of his…

May 29, 2023 / Features - Archive

Tennessee Williams was 33 before he had a hit play, whereupon he unleashed a deluge of them, including several at the very pinnacle of open-heart surgery and psychological insight. It’s easy enough to say such plays are timeless by definition, but with two, 1957’s Suddenly Last Summer and 1947’s A…