“It's Such A Trap”: Meg Mac Refuses To Be Another Tragic Tale On 'It's My Party'

Maxim Boon, Journalist

Features / Arts
Belarus Free Theatre And Pussy Riot Find A Moment Of Truth In The Post-Fact Era
"This is how dictatorships work: first they try to imprison your consciousness and when that doesn't work, they imprison your body."
Reviews / Arts
Uncle Vanya
A superbly skilled performance that is technically accomplished, emotionally alert, intellectually and historically informed while also relevant to the now.
Reviews / Arts
LadyCake (Three Birds Theatre)
This freshly devised production, created by Candace Miles, Madelaine Nunn and Anna Rodway, is streamlined, charismatic, unselfconscious and resourceful.
Reviews / Arts
Blaque Showgirls (Malthouse Theatre)
By turning up the wattage of various Aussie stereotypes to thermonuclear levels, the outrageousness of the farce lands its political punches with even more wallop.
Reviews / Film & TV
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
"It's a credit to Rowling's astonishing imagination that her magical world continues to offer up such screen-worthy wonders."
Features / Arts
Nadia Tass Finds What Lies Beneath In Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya'
"I want the audience to get right in there, in the moment, so they can see those subtleties..."
Features / Arts
Jack Charles Reigns Supreme In His Personal Story Of Redemption
"It's a story that hits a sweet honeyspot in the minds of many, gets 'em thinking."
Features / Arts
Best Boutique Eateries In The Suburb Join Forces For Newtown Festival
Who better to feed the hungry masses at the Newtown Festival than the suburb's finest gastronomes, baristas, brewers and mixologists.
Features / Arts
Melbourne's Best Burgers
When that glorious marriage of bread, meat, salad and condiments is just right, nothing beats it.
Features / Arts
Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah Invites You To Nick Cave's Technicolour Dreamworld
"It gives people the chance to immerse themselves in something beautiful and surreal."
Features / Arts
'Her Sound, Her Story' Celebrates The Woman Reshaping Australia's Music Scene
Gender inequality is alive and well in the Australian music industry, but in their film, 'Her Sound, Her Story', Michelle Grace Hunder and Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore are celebrating the women coming out on top. They share their stories with Maxim Boon.
Features / Arts
Nakkiah Lui On Why Comedy Is Sometimes The Best Way To Communicate Tragedy
"I don’t have any answers, but I do have a lot of questions."
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