Sure, there was cocaine with Michael Hutchence and prostitutes at King’s Cross, but there was also the story of a woman unafraid, uncensored and unyielding. The story of the Divinyls frontwoman “headbanging her way through the glass ceiling” was done ample justice in Amplified: The Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett at Brisbane Powerhouse […]
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Smoke in an ochre light is rising from Maiwar, and a chant is beginning. Figures move through the billowing clouds, dwarfed by striking white bones, standing behind them like ghost gums after a fire, stripped of life. They are the bones of the Yallingbillar – big whale. Stephen Page (formerly of Bangarra Dance Theatre) has
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“Smell is a powerful source of memory.” A faint waft of incense, the sizzle of onion and garlic and the warmth of a generous helping of spices fill QPAC’s Cremorne Theatre. In A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen (or How to Make the Perfect One-Pot Chicken Curry), Joshua Jamil Hinton takes us on a sentimental
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