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February 01, 1995

Reckonings

Sanctuary
by David Williamson
Playbox Theatre
Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Sanctuary, David Williamson’s newest work, is a two-hander directed by Melbourne Playbox director Aubrey Mellor. It is a distinctly more serious piece than recent Williamson exercises such as Money and Friends and Brilliant Lies. They were serious too, of course, as the playwright never loses sight of issues and situations which give a new or different glimpse of zeitgeist. But conspicuously propelling his dissection of nouveau riches or questions …

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January 01, 1995

Wise Blood

Filed under: Archive,Music

1995

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Thebarton Theatre, December 1994.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

More first feature than support act, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes are having one of their lives. Most of the full-house crowd at Thebarton are inside to see them. The hypnotic sound of the Confessions of Gainsbourg surges into the Graney signature, You’re Too Hip For Me Baby. Dave is the usual triumph of man-made fibre, doing his tai-chic workout while the band …

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