Dear Readers As some of you will already know, I've decided to close down Theatre Notes. It's a decision that's been staring m...

For the first thirty seconds I thought we were in for something special in Queen Lear . Robyn Nevin in the titular role, regally costumed in...

Baal, pagan Lord of Heaven, god of rain and fertility. Baal, the first king of the Christian Hell, best known to us as Beelzebub. Milton...

Because Richard Bean's play The Heretic is about climate change, it attracted the notice of hardline climate change denier Andrew Bolt ...

I see that Dr Peter West, retired university lecturer and social commentator, is in today's Age fulminating on the bad manners of Young...

Update: Jana Perkovic weighs in at Guerilla Semiotics . Well worth the read. Update 2: The Guardian 's Noises Off rounds up the brouha...

I know it's been quiet on the blog the past couple of days. However, it has not been quiet at home: I've been putting together an Op...

Lifting my studious head from the bloody skirmishes of 5th century Denmark, I stumbled over a report which claimed that things appear scarce...

Furious Mattress is a vastly disconcerting experience. I walked out of it more than usually unsure what I thought. The last time I felt som...

Update: The article is online here . With thanks to Nicholas Pickard. (Now with crunchy comments! [ Further update : sadly, it seems that t...