REVIEW: The Mousetrap – A masterful display of suspense, drama and craft

Is there a play more iconic than The Mousetrap? The beautiful Theatre Royal (which has had an incredibly good line-up of shows this year) played host to the opening night of the Australian iteration of Agatha Christie’s classic. The play, which takes place in the Great Hall of a Monkswell Manor in a post-WW2 Britain,…

ByKiran Gupta10 October 2022

Review

REVIEW: Nude Tuesday – hilariously unhinged, fantastically lewd and fabulous feel-good fun

Ewan Jackman reviews Nude Tuesday at this year’s Sydney Film Festival It’s impossible to prepare yourself before watching this hilariously absurd comedy. Jumping from one joke to another, Nude Tuesday (2022) holds nothing back with numerous hyper-sexual and lewd punchlines from beginning to end. The film follows the well-trodden tale of a couple, Bruno (Damon…

ByEwan Jackman27 June 2022

Review

10 Films to Watch at 2022 Sydney Film Festival

Ewan Jackman talks about the best films to watch at this year’s Sydney Film Festival After a delayed and unconventionally virtual film festival last November, the Sydney Film Festival has prepared a complete return to normality in just 6 months. As Deanne Weir, the festival chair, pointed out how “storytellers kept us entertained and sane”…

ByEwan Jackman20 May 2022

Review

REVIEW: Six The Musical – A Vociferous Explosion of Death, Drama, and a bit of Pizzazz

Six The Musical - Sydney Opera House Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. One by one, the six wives of King Henry VIII are introduced, each one turning to reveal themselves. When the queens first roar in unison, a cacophony of sound erupts around the stadium. The sound is partly audience gasps, partly applause but…

ByKiran Gupta17 February 2022

Review

DRAMSOC Review: A Moment to Cherish out of the Darkness

Lily Harper reviews the 2021 DRAMSOC play. My first foray back into the world of live theatre post-2021 lockdown took the form of DRAMSOC’s One Man, Two Guvnors (2011) by Richard Bean. Its devastatingly quick-witted joke-a-minute-dialogue betrays a brilliant writer, and an equally brilliant creative team. I was quite convinced this was a play in…

ByLily Harper13 December 2021

Collaborative

Interpreting the Artificial

Nina Friars and Netra Hankins produce an art journal that deconstructs the artificially constructed. A GUIDE TO READING THIS JOURNAL We implore our readers not to go through the world complacently. We encourage our readers to not mindlessly consume, but instead, to actively question and critically re-evaluate what is deemed objective. Society has developed in…

ByNina Friars12 October 2021

Review

Drew’s Listens: Five Albums I Have Loved in 2021

Kiran Gupta talks about five of his favourite albums in 2021. Music has always been one of my biggest passions. I wanted to write about some of my favourite albums in 2021, fully aware that they may be somewhat outside the typical taste of the Drew’s News reader. I hope that you enjoy the reviews…

ByKiran Gupta18 July 2021

Opinion

Nadia Boulanger and the Unsung Voices of Classical Music

Lily Harper delves into the world of female classical composers. The world of western art music, commonly known as classical music, is often seen as stuffy, traditional, and dominated by white males, with a few exceptions. It is very difficult to find concerts that showcase more than one female composer. However, having multiple male composers…

ByLily Harper21 March 2021

Review

REVIEW: Stairly – Golden: A stunning melody that soars above the rest

Kiran Gupta reviews Stairly (Alastair Hoskinson)’s new single, ‘Golden’. ‘Golden’ is a song that is very familiar to most Drew’s people now. We have seen Alastair Hoskinson (fR 2020) performing it at numerous jam nights of the last two years, getting the whole crowd up with the phone torchlights and chanting for an encore. We’ve…

ByKiran Gupta8 March 2021

Opinion

Musical Theatre: Is it Time for a Change in the Casting World

Kiran Gupta asks whether a change in attitude is needed when it comes to casting musical theatre in Australia. Suspension of disbelief Three words that are often thrown around on the theatre casting table or in rehearsal. The phrase basically acknowledges that a theatre audience must accept that the action on stage forms part of…

ByKiran Gupta24 December 2020