The Importance of being Earnest

Around 380 BC, Plato wrote the Gorgias, a fictional dialogue between Socrates and a group of sophists at a dinner party. The work follows the principle of Plato’s other dialogues: the group debates amongst themselves about the true nature of political rhetoric through the Socratic method. Both Socrates and Plato believed earnestly in the intellectual…

ByFinlay Ferris29 April 2023

Review

Oscars 2023 Review

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony, colloquially known as the Oscars, were held in Los Angeles on March 12th. After last year’s front page drama involving Will Smith’s infamous slap, the Academy was seeking a return to normality, focusing on the basics to hopefully survive the night scandal-free. There were some clear favourites in several categories…

ByEwan Jackman7 April 2023

Opinion

The Racial Politics of Love Island: Is it OK to have a preference in dating?

When it comes to dating, do you have a type? Most of us have a preference, but have you ever stopped to think why you're attracted to certain people and not others? And whether underlying that attraction, or lack thereof, lurks some kind of prejudice? Millions of people tune in every year to watch Love…

ByNina Friars1 December 2022

Opinion

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – What’s really behind our obsession with true crime?

True crime is everywhere. Turn on the TV, pick a podcast, or go on social media, and you’ll find it. Of course, there is good reason for this - we all love true crime. I’ll admit it, I’m an addict, and binge-watched Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a 10-part Netflix series looking into the life…

ByNina Friars19 November 2022

Review

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

Feature

No need to ‘iel’: the French non-binary problem

When you finally unwind after a busy semester, your mind starts to follow trains of thought that looming deadlines and dense readings would have stopped. I had such an experience recently. I was sitting at Hammersmith tube station, reminiscing about Euphoria, which I had watched during a post-exams Netflix binge. Nostalgia blended with eagerness for…

ByJules Vahl28 September 2022

Review

REVIEW: Jagged Little Pill: The Musical of the Year!

Kiran Gupta reviews Jagged Little Pill at Theatre Royal Sydney. It’s hard to imagine that a show would ever be so good that the crowd would send up to applaud in the middle of the second act. In fact, I have never seen a standing ovation at the theatre at any time other than the…

ByKiran Gupta22 July 2022

Review

REVIEW: Once – haunting and breathtakingly beautiful

Kiran Gupta reviews Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Once at Eternity Playhouse. Over the last two decades or so, there has been a marked increase in movie musicals as film producers scramble to adapt the latest (or classic) Broadway showstopper to the big screen. It is somewhat rarer to see a movie adapted into a musical. Once…

ByKiran Gupta7 July 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

REVIEW: Mary Poppins: A world of delight, nostalgia and family fun!

Kiran Gupta reviews Mary Poppins at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre. The last time I saw Mary Poppins, I was 12 years old. It was one of my first shows and I didn’t really understand theatre. But even then, I was amazed by the effects, the cast and the story. For children, it really does transport them…

ByKiran Gupta27 June 2022