Culture

  • Global Circus

    Global Circus Roll up, roll up, to the head of the queue. Step up, step up, come take a pew. Gather round you clowns applaud the acrobats of global domination. Cheer on the jugglers Of world-wide manipulation. Come to the

  • In the shoes of asylum seekers

    REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN  Escape to Paradise Directed by Nino Jacusso With Duzgun Ayhan, Fidan Firat, Nurettin Yildiz and Walo Luond Distributed by First Hand Films Frontieres (Borders) Directed by Mostefa Djadjam With Lou

  • Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention

    Won't Pay!, 25 Monologues for a Woman"> Fo, Rame and theatre of intervention Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the RevolutionBy Joseph FarrellMethuen, 2001308 pp, $49.95 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Dario Fo and Franca Rame hit certain

  • Rock for Refugees needs musicians!

    We are looking for any musicians interested in performing at a Rock for the Refugees benefit concert to be held in Sydney some time in August. We want to hear from any artists who can help out. Please contact Mike Cook at

  • Can soccer survive the World Cup?

    It's a shadowy, unaccountable transnational organisation, dispensing bribes to the Third World and riddled with corruption. No, not the IMF, but FIFA — the international football federation that runs soccer's World Cup. On May 29, just days

  • 'Mainstream' meets 'alternative'

    TogetherDirected by Lukas MoodyssonShowing at Dendy cinemas REVIEW BY MARIA VOUKELATOS Elisabeth tires of her abusive alcoholic husband, so she packs her bags, takes her children and goes off to live with her brother, Goran. Elisabeth is a fairly

  • Under the shadow of the bomb

    Under the shadow of the bomb Jang aur Aman (War and Peace)Directed by Anand PatwardhanScreened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival REVIEW BY EVA CHENG Since it became formally independent 55 years ago, India has hardly known peace. The country has

  • A meeting in Denmark

    REVIEW BY MARK STOYICH CopenhagenBy Michael FraynSydney Theatre CompanyWith John Gaden, Jane Harders and Colin FrielsWharf TheatreUntil July 14 Why did Werner Heisenberg, the leading German nuclear physicist during the World War II, visit his old

  • Stephen Jay Gould fought to liberate science

    NEW YORK — Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20 of cancer at the age of 60. Not only was he the best known scientist in the United States, he was a committed progressive who served on the advisory board of the Brecht

  • Punk rock's Silver Jubilee

    The Sex Pistols re-released their anti-monarchist anthem “God Save the Queen” at the end of May, 25 years after the national uproar the record received on its original release back in 1977. It was again timed to clash with

  • Small world, big screen

    SYDNEY — Once again, the screens of the State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays have come alive with a feast of cinema from across the globe. The 49th Sydney Film Festival continues until June 21, with the theme "Small world, big screen". A number of

  • Images of struggle and survival

    Behind the Tears ... Triumphant Voices: East Timor, a Photographic JourneyPhotographs by Ross Bird, David Dare Parker and Stephen DupontCurated by Emmanuel SantosPost Master Gallery, Australia Post House, corner Exhibition and La Trobe streets,