Category: Features – Archive

August 5, 2024 / Features - Archive

John Waters doesn’t believe in ghosts, yet he’s been seeing one most nights for the last four months. That’s because the veteran of Australian screens, theatres and concert stages is starring in the dramatisation of Susan Hill’s spooky novel, The Woman in Black, the titular character of which is a…

July 20, 2024 / Features - Archive

Joanna Murray-Smith is torn. On the one hand the acclaimed playwright is an in-demand adaptor of classic works not written in English. On the other hand she’s suspicious of the need for such adaptations (as opposed to existing translations) in the first place. It’s a demand stemming from the burning…

July 13, 2024 / Features - Archive

Peter Knight came to the trumpet early and to jazz late. Yet he’d only been playing the music for a decade before he began wondering if it were possible to put a more local – read Melbourne, Australia – slant on it. His first exploration, a long-lived band called Way…