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Reading & watching- Belvoir: Blue (Thomas Weatherall 2023) 29 January 2023Image from Belvoir website'Getting older is inevitable, but growing up takes courage.' The advertising tagline for this play isn't exactly aimed at Belvoir's usual audience, many of whom know that getting older does take quite a bit of courage.However, the play itself, a one-hander featuring the writer, and brilliantly directed by Deborah […]
- The Whale (Darren Aronovsky 2023) 28 January 2023It would be too harsh to call this suicide porn, but quite a lot is made of the spectacle of someone with extreme congested heart disease wolfing down greasy foods., It's very much a well-made play transposed to the screen, and the contrivance of it is annoyingly evident. If my companion had said she wanted to leave after half an hour I would have join […]
- Haunted by the Past (Ruby Langford Ginibi 1999) 27 January 2023I've been reading about First Nations people a bit much recently. It's time to read a book by a First Nations woman
- Tár (Todd Field 2022) 27 January 2023A brilliant performance by Kate Blanchett. I think the fuss about it is part of the all too usual pre-Oscars nastiness.
- Fear Agent Final edition volume 2 (Rick Remender and others 2018) 26 January 2023The second half of my annual comics gift.
- Belvoir: Blue (Thomas Weatherall 2023) 29 January 2023
Me fail? I fly! 