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Hannah Story, Journalist

Features / Music
Sharon Van Etten: 'Now I'm Just Trying To Be A Good Role Model For My Son'
Sharon Van Etten speaks to Hannah Story about the way motherhood shaped her latest album, 'Remind Me Tomorrow'.
Features / Arts
Arthur Jafa On Kanye West, The Art Of Collage & Being Drawn To The Disturbing
Video artist Arthur Jafa speaks to Hannah Story about piecing together images of Black American identity that feel true to him for his film, 'Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death'.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Cure
"What’s the point in buying tickets to a retrospective show if the album at its centre doesn’t mean something to you?"
Features / Arts
The Young Leads Of 'Romeo And Juliet' Talk About Falling In Love With Shakespeare
We speak to Jackson Bannister and Darcy Gooda, the leads in La Boite’s 'Romeo And Juliet', about the way Shakespeare’s “pair of star-crossed lovers” speak to young people today.
Features / Arts
Vivid Ideas: The $30 Billion Sextech Industry Is More Than Just Robots
Expert Bryony Cole talks to Hannah Story about what ‘sextech’ is and where she sees the $30 billion industry going in the future.
Reviews / Arts
American Psycho The Musical
"[A] reminder not to take ourselves, or the threats of self-indulgent, alienated fuckboys too seriously." Pic by Clare Hawley.
Features / Arts
Steph Tisdell Is Sometimes Compelled To Eat Sand, And Yes, She Knows That’s Hilarious
Gagging For It is Hannah Story’s fortnightly deep dive into the things that make people laugh. This week, she talks to Steph Tisdell.
Features / Arts
Chris Ryan On The Daunting Task Of Starring In David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’
Chris Ryan, the lead in the Melbourne production of 'Lazarus', by David Bowie and Enda Walsh, talks to Hannah Story about absorbing the work of a musical legend.
Reviews / Arts
Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations
"He’s a man on the edge of a breakdown – and it’s fucking funny."
Features / Arts
Demetri Martin Is Totally Fine With Being In A 'Different Wing Of The Whole Comedy Thing'
Demetri Martin tells Hannah Story he’s too old to care if he’s labelled a “one-liner comedian” or, the greatest comedy slur of all, "a prop comic".
Reviews / Arts
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
"It’s passionate, it’s vivid, it’s raw. It’s essential theatre."
Features / Arts
Kristen Roupenian, Writer Of Viral Short Story ‘Cat Person’, Finds Humour In Darkness
With ‘Gagging For It’, Hannah Story attempts to unpack the things that make everybody laugh. This week: Kristen Roupenian.
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