The Bonfire Of The vanities
By Tom Wolfe
Jonathan Cape
The Difference between the old journalism and the New (as Tom Wolfe himself called it) is that the New Journalism is writ large – in the Upper Case Apt Phrase – and writ often, with hyperactive syntax, repetitions of the key word and triple pause dots stringing together gauds of aphoristic wit.
So when it is announced that Tom Wolfe, an author of ten books which make the word best-seller …
Continue Reading Back to topAdelaide Designer Mary Moore talks to Murray Bramwell about her recent work.
Mary Moore has two quite different projects on the go at the moment. At the Gouger Street workshops of the-Australian Dance Theatre she discusses costume construction with the wardrobe staff. The ADT’s now show Acceleration! opens on July 14 at Thebarton Theatre. The work of four choreographers, it has music by Sean Timms. The designs have familiar Mary Moore touches. With poker-faced motifs for the Casino and zippy …
Continue Reading Back to topRough Crossing
by Tom Stoppard
State Theatre Company.
Playhouse.
Tom Stoppard is well on the way to becoming a noun. A stoppard could be the kind of play you write while you are waiting to write a play, a mot boiler, probably retreaded from an obscure, Hapsburg whimsy by Nestroy. Or even Ferenc Molnar, whose The Play at the Castle dined on the ‘well-made’ confections of Victorien Sardou and was itself snaffled by P. G. Wodehouse to become The Play’s …
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