My fabulous niece Edwina Shaw recently had a Sydney launch of her YA novel Thrill Seekers. Here’s a video of her reading a chapter – taken, she says on her blog, by her children:
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Reading & watching- Belvoir: The Jungle & the Sea (S. Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack 2022) 4 December 2022Image from Belvoir websiteFrom the opening moments in which a blindfolded older woman in a sari dances in silence on an almost bare stage, this is captivating. It's also epic, and feels necessary. It's a joy and a privilege to have seen it.
- Slow Horses Season 2 (James Hawes, from books by Mick Herron 2022) 3 December 2022This terrific show is back. Gary Oldman's character is as gloriously unsavoury and horrible as before.
- Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars (Waleed Aly & Scott Stephens 2022) 3 December 2022Subtitle: How contempt is corroding democracy. The Minefield meets Quarterly Essay
- The Wharf Revue 2022: Looking for Albanese (Jonathan Biggins, Mandy Bishop, Drew Forsythe, Phillip Scott 2022) 29 November 2022A great 90 minutes of singing, dancing sketch comedy.
- Wednesday (Alfred Gough 2022) 28 November 2022As a teenager I loved Charles Addams' cartoons in The New Yorker, and also what I saw of the original TV series. This series, about Wednesday's time at a boarding school that's like a dark parody of Hogwarts, gives the same pleasure. Tim Burton's direction is just right, and Jenna Ortega as Wednesday is perfect.
- Belvoir: The Jungle & the Sea (S. Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack 2022) 4 December 2022
Me fail? I fly! 