GR Online DRAMA IS NOT about what gets said and done but what gets understood. The ostensible content of a play can be different from its emotional substance, or the impact it has when performed live on stage by actors capable...

EssayPICTURE ONE: THERE are eight people sitting around a table on the top floor of a high-rise building in the heart of Adelaide’s CBD. Four of us are from a humanities research project looking for new ways to account...

Some ProvocationsIN THE WINTER of 1980, in the last few months of her life, Queenie Leavis, wife of renowned literary critic FR Leavis, and co-editor of the dyspeptic pre-War literary journal Scrutiny, came to my school in England. A group...

Memoir'The best man in England.' Ronald Reagan on Margaret Thatcher'For £3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel to dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.' Frankie Boyle CARYL CHURCHILL'S AWARD-WINNING...

EssayLIKE TINY TERRORISTS, a slew of toxic memories from the last twenty years swarm through my mind when considering Australian culture in the abstract. 2004: I attend a sponsors' dinner at the Melbourne Theatre Company, a posh affair with...

MemoirEvery thinker thinks one thought. The researcher needs constantly new discoveries and inspirations, else science will bog down and fall into error. The thinker needs one thought only. Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?   I REMEMBER READING it by torchlight, or perhaps...

MemoirHE WORE OFF-WHITE trainers with built-up soles. The caved-in line of his jaw told me he had no teeth of his own. The other one, with honey-brown skin, held numerous bags and an ancient boom box. They met outside...