“When you hear music,“ jazz saxophonist Eric Dolphy once remarked, “After it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.”
In varying degrees that is true of all live performances. They have their moment, their season and then are gone. Sometimes they remain vivid, but eventually, even excellent productions and outstanding performances drift into imperfect recollection and generalised hearsay.
I hope this website, for all its sometimes unwelcome opinions, is a useful record of some of …
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Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the Arts.
Dear Senators
I have been a theatre reviewer for national publications, including The National Times, The Australian Financial Review and currently The Australian, since 1985.
My comments refer particularly to theatre funding in Australia but inferences can be made across all of the performing arts.
I am profoundly concerned by the recent changes to arts funding announced in the 2015 Budget by Senator Brandis : both in the reduction of allocation to the Australia Council and the siphoning of as …
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