Sarah Braybrooke, Journalist

“It’s about a politician and his family gathered together for Easter. There’s a very large family business, and in one way or another they’re all corrupt…"

“People come to us and they forget the outside world. They come to us for some magic time.”

“It really is a pretty intense showbiz travel lifestyle with masses of suitcases and Marlene Dietrich-esque degrees of costumes, sequins and whatnot... They can be a bugger to get through customs though.”

"Things do go, and you have to start again. That’s a situation that people often find themselves in, and it’s quite universal.”

“A grunge-era version of Waiting For Godot,” is how director Adam Spellicy describes the play SubUrbia. Sarah Braybrooke gets the lowdown from the filmmaker.

“[It’s] the idea that we live in a system that grows indiscriminately until it can’t support itself, and then collapses. I think that’s what fame is, and that’s what free-market capitalism is.”

“We try to make good movies that we would like to see, period. We just make sure that they’re appropriate for children.”

In the MTC’s Elling, director Pamela Rabe uses mental illness as a platform to explore the anxieties of human individuals. She explains to Sarah Braybrooke that it is not ‘about’ mental illness at all.

Before their first-ever performance in the Southern Hemisphere for Harvest Festival, Sarah Braybrooke sits down with George Hayworth and Liv Morris, aka Bourgeois & Maurice, to find out how they caught the cabaret bug.

The dialogue is sparse and verging on portentous, but a final monologue offers a transporting moment of calm after the chaos.

“I’ve plateaued at pleasant.”

It’s my party and it’s in less than a month!