Culture

  • 100 years of Bertolt Brecht

    100 years of Bertolt BrechtBERLIN — Germany is going through a Bertolt Brecht "epidemic". Old Brecht would have laughed his guts out if he had seen all the activities sweeping throughout this country to mark his 100th birthday on

  • Song: Mutual obligation

    Mutual obligation Fees for beds in nursing homes,Schemes for working for the dole,Price hikes for child-care services and universities ... Cuts to hospitals and schools,Are really good for one and all,Once you understand our government's

  • Poem: Dita Sari

    Dita Sari Truly free theserighteous captives.Pathfinders of freedom,peaceful warriors,held hostageby a tyrant State. Democracy of thedungeonSocialism of thecells. Friends of libertyfighting onbehind the wire,the bars, the chains.Leading

  • Abortion rallies

    Abortion rallies Public actions were held around the country on April 3 and 4 to demand the repeal of all abortion laws. The actions were in solidarity with the pro-choice movement in WA, where parliament is debating legislation to change the legal

  • A silent contradiction

    Review by Al McCall Kings in Grass Castles has been and gone from our TV screens without so much as a hoot or bother. Neither promoted vigorously by Channel 7 nor noted by industry or government as worthy of much to-do, the four-hour miniseries

  • Here's to culture, not money

    Here's to culture, not money Amy's viewBy David HareOpera House Drama TheatreUntil April 18 Review by Mark Stoyich What a joy to see a conventionally structured, naturalistic drama in a traditional theatre after sitting through a week of

  • Passion aplenty in Inti-Illimani album

    Arriesgaré la Piel (I Will Risk My Skin)By Inti-IllimaniXenophile Records through Festival Review by Barry Healy If Augusto Pinochet is the great survivor of Chilean right-wing politics, then surely Inti-Illimani rank with the great

  • Have play/will travel

    Have play/will travelThe New World Order Theatre is a new venture and, as it turns out, a rather unusual one. Instead of being tied to the normal paraphernalia and formality of main stage theatre, New World Order Theatre reckons it

  • Not a bed of roses

    HOBART — A Bed Of Roses, a women's writing exhibition, to open shortly, has been the long-time dream of women's refuge workers, Anne and Lilly. They feel it is a way of "opening doors into women's lives". The exhibition comprises

  • Melbourne Comedy Festival

    MELBOURNE— The 12th Melbourne International Comedy Festival, beginning April 1, features a mind-boggling array of events. From well-known international celebrities such as Julian Cleary and Sean Hughes, and popular Australian

  • Economy outside the market

    Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are WorthBy Marilyn WaringWellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1997(Originally: Allen & Unwin NZ, 1988)$24.95 Review by Greg Ogle It is 10 years since Marilyn Waring published Counting for