Culture

  • Women and peace

    Women and peace For the Love of Peace: Women and Global Peace Building By Kaye Murray Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: 1995. 150 pp. Reviewed by Connie Frazer. For anyone curious about WILPF

  • The hand that keeps the photograph

    The Hand that Signed the Paper By Helen Demidenko Allen & Unwin: 1994. 157 pp., $13.95 (pb) Reviewed by Vivienne Porzsolt I am Jewish. My parents got out of Prague the day Hitler's troops marched in — March 15, 1939. Most

  • Cocktail and exhibition night

    Cocktail and exhibition night ADELAIDE — Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party held a very successful cocktail and exhibition night on August 12 to raise funds for Green Left Weekly. Featured were the work of Jim Cane,

  • Two's a couple, three's drama

    Blokes August 16-19, 22-26 One Plus One August 31-September 2, 13-16 When I was A Girl I used to Scream and Shout September 6-9, 19-23 Junction Theatre in conjunction with Ambush, Not So Straight Theatre and Living

  • Oh! Kenneth Tynan!

    The Life of Kenneth Tynan By Kathleen Tynan Phoenix, 1995. 467 pp., $24.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Some people know Kenneth Tynan (who died in 1979) as the best drama critic since George Bernard Shaw. Conservative

  • Folk festival goes international

    The SA State Folk Festival is again being staged by the Folk Federation of SA, from September 29 to October 30 at Victor Harbour.The state's largest community arts festival has thrived in this location and has earned a

  • Desiderata Too

    Desiderata Too Don't go placidly amid the apathy and lethargy. Remember that your silence is consent and there can be no peace where there is injustice. You can't please all the people all the time, so shout your truth from the

  • The stuff that dreams are made of

    The stuff that dreams are made of Movie Dreams By Rosie Scott University of Queensland Press, 1995. 152pp Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Movie Dreams is the story of Adan Loney, a young person who finds the world a

  • Improving, like good wine

    The Blind Giant is Dancing By Stephen Sewell Directed by Neil Armfield Company B Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until September 10 Reviewed by Allen Myers When I first heard that Company B was reviving Stephen

  • A failure in the delivery

    All Men Are Liars Hoyts Cinemas Reviewed by Kath Gelber and Lou Stanley You can't help but wonder why the producers have put so much marketing money into such a mediocre film. The exit from the preview screening we attended was

  • Casting stones at the icon

    Carcrash Directed by David Caesar Chauvel Cinema, Sydney, from August 17 Reviewed by Kath Gelber People "drive the way they would like to live their lives", claims this new documentary by David Caesar. They substitute for

  • 'Links' circles the globe

    Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal Issue Number 5 Reviewed by Kath Gelber Positive assessments of prospects for Cuba are sometimes hard to find, even in progressive publications. The US embargo, combined with the