“Maths is a language created by humans to find the wonder and the transcendental about the world and the universe, as well as the beauty, power and fragility of the human [...]
It feels like forever since I’ve viewed the world through rose-coloured glasses. Idiot leaders, global financial crises, wars, environmental disasters, more idiot [...]
Reviewing Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company was never going to be an easy task. Now something of an Australian theatre classic, it examines the social impulse to [...]
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do [...]
I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent [...]
Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that [...]
The word “legend” is waaaayyyyyyy too overused in the entertainment world, but when it comes to Dame Julie Andrews it’s almost an understatement. One of the [...]
Um…did I just attend the ballet, or an extended routine at Love & Rockets (if you’re not from Brisbane, google it)? Yes, the Gaultier-designed costumes were a [...]
Brennan is a former senior executive of the Australia Council for the Arts and Executive Director of Circa, with leadership experience in performing arts, youth arts, [...]