Angus Cerini’s The Bleeding Tree reveals the brutalising and disfiguring reality of male violence, says Ben Brooker
BEN BROOKER
BEN BROOKER
Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, critic, playwright, essayist, and bookseller. His work has been featured by Overland, New Matilda, New Internationalist, Australian Book Review, RealTime, The Lifted Brow, and Daily Review. His most recently produced work for the stage was the dystopian triptych This Storm (2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival). He is a co-facilitator of Adelaide’s Quart Short literary reading salons and in 2016-17 was an inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellow.
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‘This is not the comeback we were looking for’: Ben Brooker on STCSA’s Gaslight
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Tiny Bricks’ All One demonstrates that live-streaming theatre is a whole new ballgame, says Ben Brooker
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The shift to social isolation has been brutal. Ben Brooker wonders if embracing its strange absences might be a way through crisis
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The operatic adaptation of Lars von Triers’ film Breaking the Waves succeeds in ways the film fails, says Ben Brooker
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An intimate remembrance, Aleppo: A Portrait of Absence centres the human cost of war, says Ben Brooker
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Independent theatre faces huge challenges, but artists are fighting back. Ben Brooker looks at RUMPUS, a co-operative venture in Adelaide about to enter its second year
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Australian Dance Theatre’s North/South is a powerful evocation of climate dystopia and human resilience, says Ben Brooker
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‘A first-rate revival ‘: Ben Brooker on Kate Champion’s A View from the Bridge at Adelaide’s State Theatre Company
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At this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Larissa McGowan and Zoë Coombs Marr reawaken cabaret’s underground charge, says Ben Brooker
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