Archive for 'Interviews-arts'
[COMEDY: Interview] Dylan Moran
Dylan Moran
Family Man
By Alasdair Duncan
With his wild mop of hair and his charmingly rumpled manner, Dylan Moran is a hit every time he comes to Australia. He sells out stand-up shows all around the country, earning big laughs and, frequently, proposals of marriage.
When I ask Moran why, in his estimation, Australian audiences adore him, he’s [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 440 (November 28), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Alasdair Duncan, Dylan Moran, The Brag
[FILM: Interview] X
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Underground Lovers
By Rebecca Harkins- Cross
For writers, one of the oldest rules in the book is to stick to what you know. But most of us don’t spend our days surrounded by neon-lit brothels, swanky hotels, squalid motels and the recesses of seedy strip joints. Our neighbours aren’t exclusive escorts, streetwalkers, desperado junkies and crooked cops. [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 440 (November 28), Interviews-arts.
Tags: / X, Rebecca Harkins- Cross, The Brag
[FILM: Interview] Attack The Block
Attack The Block
Thugs And Critters
By Alasdair Duncan
Produced by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of the Dead) and directed by Joe Cornish (co-writer of the upcoming Adventures Of Tintin), Attack The Block is a rollicking alien invasion flick, the story of a South London youth gang forced to do battle against the toothy extraterrestrials that have invaded their [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 440 (November 28), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Alasdair Duncan, Attack The Block, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, The Brag
Five Minutes With Marius Von Mayenburg
He’s the dramaturg for Berlin’s Schaubühne (whose Hamlet rocked Sydney Festival in 2010), he’s one of Benedict Andrews’ favourite two playwrights (the other being Martin Crimp), and he’s one of Germany’s most exciting young playwrights. In Sydney this month to talk with director Sarah Giles about her upcoming Griffin Theatre production of his play The [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 440 (November 28), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Marius Von Mayenburg, The Brag, The Ugly One
[THEATRE: Interview] Story Of A Rabbit
Story Of A Rabbit
An Unreal Story
By Michael Brown
When Hugh Hughes returns to Sydney this month, it will be the third time he’s toured a show here; not bad for a Welsh ‘emerging artist’. Hugh first charmed us in 2009 with Floating, about the time he tried to leave his native Isle of Anglesey, whereupon the [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 439 (November 21), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Hugh Hughes, Michael Brown, Story Of A Rabbit, The Brag