Link for the Film Version of All Quiet on the Western Front. Today we had the fabulous experience of opening our hearts and minds to this wonderful, astonishing book by Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front or, in German Im Westen Nichts Neues (literarily: In the West Nothing New). This title is alluded to on the…
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Brian Friel Faith Healer
This was an amazing play that really does take us into the heart of everything that the twentieth century was about. T.S. Eliot speaks about modern life as one where we are all “distracted from distraction by distraction”. We have seen how Gerard Manley Hopkins challenges the destructiveness, the distractedness of his times as, in…
Virginia Woolf & Katherine Mansfield
Today we explored the ways in which these two early 20th Century authors used their creative gifts to delve deep into their own consciousness into that of their characters. The two daughters in “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” suddenly find themselves freed from the patriarchal and imperialist shackles of their father and yet are unable…
All Quiet on the Western Front & Gallery Manifestos
This coming week (for some of us this Saturday) we are visiting the Art Gallery of NSW to explore early 20th Century Modernist art and Art Manifestos. There is an amazing exhibition on at the gallery which is a video installation entitled Manifesto. It was conceived by German artist Julian Rosenfeldt and is enacted by Australia’s…
Everyman- Review of National Theatre Live Production
As a group we went yesterday to see poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s new translation of Everyman with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and movement by Javier De Frutos. The original morality play called Everyman (written in the late 15th Century) was a play designed to remind people of their mortality. It was designed to…
All Quiet on the Western Front- The Horrific Impact of War
The Death of Kemmerich All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Erich Maria Remarque is an author whose message and appeal is universal. Read by Germans, French, English or Americans it spells out the tragic impact of war on the ordinary soldier. But what it also powerfully shows is that in the teeth of war, in…
