REVIEW BY AZMY AZURITE EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT “Are you sure you’re ready for the backlash?” “Of course!” “He’s not.” Numa and Karl: The Extraordinary Man That He Was is the story of Karl Henrich Ulrichs, the first man in history to ever come out as gay. He invented his own word for the phenomenon—urning, its roots in Aphrodite’s epithet Urania, which emphasises Aphrodite’s more … Continue reading Numa and Karl: A Profoundly Emotional History
REVIEW BY GRYFF CONNAH EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT OCD often manifests as an amorphous, nameless thing. It metastasises in silence, slowly and surely until, one day, its shapelessness is your whole shape and it is staring you in the face from all sides. I would know; I am living with it. The experience of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is something that is very difficult to … Continue reading ‘no title’ – But No Less Power
REVIEW BY ELLA CALLOW-SUSSEX EDITED BY EMMA PARFITT It was a cold and dreary night in May. Autumn wind, having finally taken hold in Melbourne, made my fingers brittle and after not heeding the copious warnings about terrible parking at Theatre Works, I started the long walk to the theatre just as it started bucketing down. I wanted to turn around and go home. I … Continue reading Storked: Myf Hocking’s New Play Flies High
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