https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/author/dominik-krupinski/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:00:21 +0000 en-au hourly 1 https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/world-press-photo-2012 https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/world-press-photo-2012 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:51:50 +0000 At its best, an exhibition of the extremes of life: good and bad.

]]> At its best, an exhibition of the extremes of life: good and bad.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-others-other https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-others-other Mon, 14 May 2012 02:33:06 +0000 Explore that feeling of finally seeing a real, flawed place you've previously imagined as more glamorous.

]]> Explore that feeling of finally seeing a real, flawed place you've previously imagined as more glamorous.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/games-in-the-backyard https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/games-in-the-backyard Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:11:00 +0000 As effective art often does, this play examines a cultural sore spot, picking apart a real-life rape and its fallout.

]]> As effective art often does, this play examines a cultural sore spot, picking apart a real-life rape and its fallout.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/judith-a-parting-from-the-body https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/judith-a-parting-from-the-body Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:38:18 +0000 This revisionist take on the biblical story of Judith toys with the idea that seduction can play on the vulnerabilities of both parties.

]]> This revisionist take on the biblical story of Judith toys with the idea that seduction can play on the vulnerabilities of both parties.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/orange-flower-water https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/orange-flower-water Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:30:51 +0000 Orange Flower Water is gorgeously scripted and wrenchingly incisive on topics like desire, guilt, obligation and, most of all, regret.

]]> Orange Flower Water is gorgeously scripted and wrenchingly incisive on topics like desire, guilt, obligation and, most of all, regret.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/arts-entertainment/music/review-holy-fuck-and-my-disco-at-the-sydney-festival-becks-bar https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/arts-entertainment/music/review-holy-fuck-and-my-disco-at-the-sydney-festival-becks-bar Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:36:09 +0000 Holy Fuck's additional instrumentation and surfeit of ideas is nice, but serves to build individual songs up until there’s either some sort of climax or, a go-nowhere synth jam which is a pretty major drag when you’re just standing around listening.

]]> Holy Fuck's additional instrumentation and surfeit of ideas is nice, but serves to build individual songs up until there’s either some sort of climax or, a go-nowhere synth jam which is a pretty major drag when you’re just standing around listening.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/spunk-records-xmas-party https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/spunk-records-xmas-party Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:52:52 +0000 Raising the bar for Christmas party caper, Spunk are turning it on with an impressive lineup to celebrate the end of a momentous year for the cult record label.

]]> Raising the bar for Christmas party caper, Spunk are turning it on with an impressive lineup to celebrate the end of a momentous year for the cult record label.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-grenade https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-grenade Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:54:20 +0000 Tony McNamara’s new play The Grenade is well paced, competently acted and funny at times, but it’s hard to get too excited about a show so keen to diffuse its own narrative tension. Ostensibly about the paranoia that ensues when political analyst and family man Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) finds a hand grenade left in […]

]]> Tony McNamara’s new play The Grenade is well paced, competently acted and funny at times, but it’s hard to get too excited about a show so keen to diffuse its own narrative tension. Ostensibly about the paranoia that ensues when political analyst and family man Busby McTavish (Gary McDonald) finds a hand grenade left in […]

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/matt-huynh-alluvia https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/matt-huynh-alluvia Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:13:18 +0000 I recently went to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Which, contextually, is neither here nor there except that it houses the world’s largest collection of ancient Chinese art, stretches for floor upon floor of exhibits and is utterly mind blowing. There were so many incredible artifacts to see that I stopped taking things in […]

]]> I recently went to the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Which, contextually, is neither here nor there except that it houses the world’s largest collection of ancient Chinese art, stretches for floor upon floor of exhibits and is utterly mind blowing. There were so many incredible artifacts to see that I stopped taking things in […]

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/an-exhibition-of-russian-artists https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/an-exhibition-of-russian-artists Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:06:31 +0000 One of the artist statements for Global Gallery’s current Russian Artists show proudly proclaims painter, Leeka Gruzdeff, as the “winner of over 100 first prizes in local and country exhibitions.” That’s a pretty good summation of this show, with most of the five artists’ work displaying the sort of technical competence that would fare well […]

]]> One of the artist statements for Global Gallery’s current Russian Artists show proudly proclaims painter, Leeka Gruzdeff, as the “winner of over 100 first prizes in local and country exhibitions.” That’s a pretty good summation of this show, with most of the five artists’ work displaying the sort of technical competence that would fare well […]

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