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IN YOLNGU CULTURE – the Aboriginal language group of north-eastern Arnhem Land – there is a song sequence for...

I HAD SEEN the flyers around. 'Come and try theatre, learn writing and performance skills in a supportive environment.' Stupid. Embarrassing. A...

By Alysha Herrmann

'CAN I MAKE it?' a scary thought crosses my mind as the plane climbs away from Sydney into the...

By Frances Guo

I WAS BORN dead. I didn't breathe. Maybe I didn't want to. Perhaps I was simply over-thinking it. I...

By Marcus Westbury

HULYA'S HEART BELONGED to words. It was the heaviest item she packed when she migrated to Australia as a new...

By Demet Divaroren

MAY 2012: I'm sitting at rehearsal of the Nothing prepared me for this show at La Mama Theatre and mentally I'm...

By Rebecca Lister

Well take her once, take her twice / She can leave you cold as ice Oh my, she is so...

It's been a long time, you old harlot. From my rented flat I see your big-ticket items – solid arc of Bridge, glinting slivers...

By Susan Varga

Money is a kind of poetry – Wallace Stevens It sounds oracular but really no one knows what Wallace meant. Conversely then, we're bound...

By Geoff Page

At an unfashionable seaside resort, no more than a country town that happened to be near salt water, Johnstone's Circus arrived for its...

By Kevin Densley

EVERYTHING IS FINE and then one day it isn't. Rogue jets on shower nozzles start spraying at odd angles,...

By Craig Cliff

THIS IS 1975, over a hundred and twenty years since the event, and I don't reckon history is that...

By Chris Armstrong