Here is the darkened stage at the start of this “event”… everything stark and feeling like a factory rather than a place occupied by humans. The roar of helicopters and the savage barking of distant dogs…. This was an amazing performance that utilized a whole range of media to get its powerful message across. Here…
Month: August 2006
David Hicks and Honour Bound
THEATRE VISIT Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre- Tonight! 6.30 Meet me in the foyer of the Drama Theatre at the Opera House at 6pm. The Drama Theatre is at Ground Level; its doors look across to the Harbour Bridge. If you are late I will leave your ticket at the box office. You should read…
Teaching has been hectic in the last two weeks with Discussions and Assignments coming in on top of regular teaching. But two batches of Discussions have now been marked: Australian Literature and Twentieth Century Literature. Both Discussions explored the possibilities of role-playing and of converting literary texts into film. Overall the experiment was succesful; it…
Teaching Week Four
“Visions of the Daughters of Albion” by William Blake was on the Agenda for third years this week: what an amazing poem in its challenge to conventional views of women and sexuality. Blake is here daring to declare that women have the right to determine their own sexuality -despite the tyranny of males. This poem…
Spring is in the air!
The end of week 3 and the start of week 4 and this weekend Rose (my wife) and I planted some Waratahs in our bush garden… a great weekend for planting given the off and on deluges! Then today we caught the first boronias in flower in the bush behind our place. This is the…
Real-Life Bloggin
If you want to taste what Blogging means to someone in the middle of the Lebanese war-zone go to the musician and cartoonist’s site http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/ and click on any of his amazing cartoons to get a sense of how difficult life is there and what responses he is getting from the world community. His blog…
Megan Heyward…. of day… of night…
What a fantastic session that was with Megan Heyward who not only provided such a detailed insight into the meaning and texture of her digital work, but who also helped to make us all feel the possibility of moving in the direction that she has pioneered…. add to this her great insight into the history…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 