Category: Features – Archive

February 12, 2021 / Features - Archive

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has made himself one of the world’s leading playwrights inside a decade. Outhouse Theatre gave us his Gloria in 2019 and Kings Cross Theatre his Everybody last year, and now STC picks up an earlier play, Appropriate, directed by Wesley Enoch (Roslyn Packer March 15-April 10). This joins…

February 6, 2021 / Features - Archive

JOHN CLARE 1940-2020  Journalist John Clare mostly listened to music with his eyes closed. If it reared up toward exceptionalism his expression was rapturous, and when it finished his eyes sprang open, and he grinned or even laughed ecstatically. This intensity of pleasure was the same when he was snorkelling,…

January 26, 2021 / Features - Archive

When the pandemic obliterated his work and obliged him to home-school his two children, Stu Hunter could have simply put his musical career on hold. Instead he established a daily regimen of rising at 5:30, and spending three uninterrupted hours in his studio before the demands of his day began.…