Articles by Mark Gertskis
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Along with the Bard’s dramatic opus, Hamlet, The Taming Of The Shrew is this year’s offering at ... Read more
TOWER HEIST
If you were after this year’s light-hearted crime caper offering, you’ve come to the right place. Luxury ... Read more
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Renowned Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s latest offering, The Skin I Live In, is on the surface a ... Read more
NO MAN’S LAND
The master of menace will return to our shores when the Sydney Theatre Company stages Harold Pinter’s ... Read more
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TAKING SHELTER
Mental illness can strike anyone, anywhere – even when you’re regular guy in Anytown, USA. That seems ... Read more
GIG: WASHINGTON + BIRDS & BELLES
Fresh from a packed show at the Peats Ridge festival, and having just wrapped up their first ... Read more
MOVIE: SEPARATION CITY
It seems film makers, along with novelists and songwriters and just about anyone else with something to ... Read more
MOVIE: A PROPHET
Grim, gritty, violent, and almost entirely set in a prison, A Prophet is by no means a ... Read more
THEATRE: SHORT+SWEET WEEK 3
It’s not the size that matters but what you do with it. That was certainly the case ... Read more
FLICKERFEST 2010
A film about grief and growing up written and directed by Newtown-based film maker Craig Boreham is ... Read more
Arts & Entertainment
Music
JIM KEAYS - DIRTY DIRTY
When he told you to "Turn up ...
Read moreSUZY CONNOLLY - NIGHT LARKS
It could be said that Suzy Connolly ...
Read moreTHE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
Claiming their new stuff is about, "feeling, ...
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Theatre
THE VOICES PROJECT 2012: THE ONE SURE THING
There are, as they say, two sure ...
Read moreBABYTEETH
Otherwise known as reborner or deciduous teeth, ...
Read moreTHE JINGLISTS
Tamarama Rock Surfers’ The Jinglists is a ...
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Events
YARN STORYTELLING
If you’re a yarn spinner or a ...
Read moreTHE OXFORD ST DESIGN STORE
Aesthetes, crafters, design geeks and shop-a-holics stand ...
Read moreTHE POETRY OF MARDI GRAS
From its humble beginnings on the Eastside ...
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Comedy
RAW COMEDY 2012
If you can reel off the likes ...
Read moreLAUGH YOUR TITS OFF
Laugh Your Tits Off promises a, “very ...
Read moreWIL ANDERSON
Get ready for the witty, gritty and ...
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Books
BETTY CHURCHER
Like a surgeon losing the functionality of ...
Read moreTHEATRE, DEMOCRACY & THE END OF DISTRACTION
In my interview with 67-year-old Aboriginal actor ...
Read moreGUWANYI - POETRY IN THE PARK
The National Aboriginal Writers’ Festival is still ...
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Exhibitions
BRONWYN BANCROFT: POWER, PASSION, POLITICS
A Bundjalung artist of the Djanbun clan, ...
Read moreCRASH PAINTINGS
It may seem like an unlikely source ...
Read moreSAMUEL HODGE
Watching the red 'sold' dots breaking out ...
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