Rima Sabina Aouf
Rima is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Playground.
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EventQuack
Tue, 5 Oct - Sat, 9 Oct 2010
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
"I saw discharge. It's on the table." These seven words, spoken by one Dr Waterman, go a long way toward summing up this [i]Deadwood[/i]-with-zombies styled play. It's a gross-out fest of the sort that is rarely seen in these days of restrained living-room dramedy.
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EventTomorrow, When the War Began
Thu, 2 Sep - Thu, 21 Oct 2010
Various cinemas in Sydney
If anything is going to get us over our cultural cringe, it must be this serious, big-budget-ish adaptation of the [i] Tomorrow[/i] series. It's a whole lot bloodier than [i] Twilight[/i], and the explosions: well they're great. Save your cynicism - this is one to get excited about.
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EventTusk Tusk
Wed, 25 Aug - Sat, 4 Sep 2010
Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre, Sydney
There’s something refreshing about these particular angsty youths. They show so little sign of that neologism-spinning, tech-tuned, so-sharp-you’ll-cut-yourself dialect contrived for young characters and expected of young authors, they’re practically real people. Their references are less Facebook, more Sendak. They don’t talk like they’re texting, but their lives are tied to a mobile phone in […]
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EventScott Pilgrim vs. the World
Tue, 17 Aug - Wed, 29 Sep 2010
Various cinemas in Sydney
Years of hipster geekdom have led to this, a film directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced), starring Michael Cera (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Juno, Arrested Development) and adapted from a comic book based on the conventions of video games and romance. Cera is Scott Pilgrim, an average, sweet but […]
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EventGwen in Purgatory
Wed, 11 Aug - Sun, 19 Sep 2010
Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills
Playwright Tommy Murphy's much-anticipated follow-up to [i]Holding the Man[/i] and [i]Saturn's Return[/i], [i]Gwen in Purgatory[/i] was directed and guided to fruition by Neil Armfield at Company B. The result is an immaculate production of a finely tuned script. At its centre is 90-year-old Gwen Houlihan, lifelong resident of Queanbeyan, cloistered in her new digs and caught in a web of technologies that have kept moving faster as she has slowed down to a shuffle. Literally. Her phones are ringing and she just can't reach them in time. And the arrival of her children and grandchildren isn't the balm you'd hope.
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EventCreating the Look: Benini and Fashion Photography
Tue, 3 Aug 2010 - Mon, 18 Apr 2011
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
Italian-born Bruno was a photographer with a wonderful sense of narrative, painterly composition, drama and light. Hazel - a Kiwi, artist and shop window stylist - could put together a Sportsgirl display that would draw crowds of office girls when it was unveiled on a Thursday afternoon.
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EventThe Special Relationship
Thu, 5 Aug - Wed, 15 Sep 2010
Various cinemas in Sydney
Longed to see the grandeur and mythmaking of American drama combined with the British penchant to satirise? This co-production between America's HBO and Britain's BBC Films brings the two worlds together with surprising ease.
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EventI, Robot
Wed, 9 Jun, 2010
If you thought the full possibilities of the sci-fi genre had been plumbed by that episode of Doctor Who the other week where the human space colony of the 29th century have to vote every five years to ‘protest’ or ‘forget’ the secret exploitation at the heart of their thriving space society (’cause I totally […]
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EventFashion Weekend
Thu, 13 May - Sun, 16 May 2010
Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park
I am forever trying to convince some cynic there is art in fashion: that a runway show is a walking exhibition; that designers make endless, self-reflexive statements on the meaning of the body; that street fashion is innate expression. But I concede there is no art in Fashion Weekend — unless you count the art […]
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EventArt Month Sydney 2010
Mon, 1 Mar - Wed, 31 Mar 2010
Various Sydney venues, Sydney
If your normal intake of art plateaus out at a monthly round of the AGNSW and a field trip during the Biennale, March is here to turn things up a notch. The instigators of Art Month Sydney want you to see the smallest of private galleries scattered through our city and to know that you […]
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EventPecha Kucha for Haiti
Sat, 20 Feb, 2010
MCA Harbour Terrace, The Rocks
If you haven’t been to a famed Pecha Kucha Night yet — title from the Japanese for ‘chitchat’ — Saturday night is your night. Saturday we are Pecha Kucha-ing not just for the symbiotic development of ideas and love-in of aesthetic wonderment, but also for Haiti. You’ve heard it said time and again that what […]