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Arts writer Saturday Paper, Guardian, Monthly, Sunday Life, Audrey, Spectrum, Art Guide, Fin Review, Limelight. Stage, screen, music, visual dowjourno@gmail.com

Sydney, New South Wales
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Joined August 2011
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    Apr 1

    In April my sit-down interview in Stratford-upon-Avon with esteemed stage actor Simon Russell Beale, who plays vile security chief Beria in . We talk , ad-libbing, the Bard, Prospero, piano, Falstaff, freedom, family and sexuality

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    23 hours ago

    This beautiful pit bull wouldn't leave the pound without the frightened chihuahua she had protected, So the owner adopted them together.

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    Apr 3

    To learn more about and/or assist victims: VAVA () MiVAC () Artists for Orphans () the Medical & Scientific Aid for Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia ().

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    Mar 30

    To any unsettled immigrant reading this, just starting that journey or still in the purgatory of waiting for a decision... I wanna say No Human Is Illegal. We aren't. We've never been. Those who label us as such are tryna break our spirits.

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  5. Apr 1

    . lauded Beale's turn as evil Beria in Death of Stalin as "first among equals" while 's Shane Danielson says the film "belongs" to Beale. 's says Beale gives the "most memorable performance" of the ensemble.

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  6. Mar 22

    What a performance: Amanda Muggleton gets to the heart of the diva Callas in Master Class - highly recommend. Oh, and take a pencil.

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  7. Mar 21

    Good piece on one of my favourite essayists, Leslie Jamison (The Empathy Exams), whose memoir is released next month. Her goal is to “innovate upon the tradition of the recovery memoir … by including a whole fugue of stories, not just my own".

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  8. Mar 20

    “Characters are not nouns, we’re verbs; we do one thing one moment and another thing the next.” I talk to Perth playwright and actor Will O'Mahony, whose new work Minneapolis is being read at the in Sydney

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    Mar 20

    . won a grant from the SBW Foundation to support emerging playwrights with interviews that introduce them to wider audiences. We are rolling these out now. I hope you enjoy them. First up, Anchuli Felicia King.

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  10. Mar 17

    I deactivated my Facebook account as my new year’s resolution. Your personal info being repurposed to the highest bidder, in this case one screwing with democracy.

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  11. Mar 16

    Interview is now online: Highly recommend Ai Weiwei's - the scale and ambition and visual poetry is breathtaking.

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  12. Mar 14

    Looking forward to seeing Ai Weiwei interviewed at the Opera House tonight about displaced millions and his Human Flow film. Here our blatantly racist Immigration Minister is flint-hearted for refugees, unless you're white Afrikaner

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  13. Mar 14

    "I was in such trauma I can’t remember going to work," creator tells me as A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer heads to . "The reaction I got from the world around me was quite shocking," says :

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    Mar 12

    ICYMI: Here is Eamon Flack's speech on why he's pulling indie theatre makers into the fold. "You've gotta lose your virginity however you can."

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  15. Mar 13

    I’ve nicknamed the mute button on my TV remote ‘IPA’. It has an overweening sense of entitlement and mysterious benefactors.

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    Mar 12

    So we are now defending wealthy people who have arranged to have no taxable income and then get a taxpayer funded hand out costing the budget billions

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  17. Mar 12

    The Windsors is deliciously stupid and cruel. Beatrice and Eugenie my faves, with their Tinder for Toffs business plan. Charles with a love child. Pippa as femme fatale. “I’m Malcolm Turnbull,” says bloke in floral shirt, burping. Gratitude for us in the colonies.

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  18. Mar 9

    That novel is a tale of art theft that began when Jones was invited to Palermo and learnt Falcone–Borsellino Airport is named after two murdered magistrates who had led the struggle against the Cosa Nostra. The Death of Noah Glass will be released on April 2.

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  19. Mar 9

    "Every person is a special kind of artist, and it would be wonderful if we had a culture that organised itself to recognise that," says Gail Jones who discusses growing up working class and her latest, seventh novel in my profile

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    Mar 5

    88 people died in Ghouta today, including a doctor. That is all.

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