Thanks for reminding everyone that it is the newspaper’s inappropriate reporting that is on trial here, not a woman’s, or a man’s personal definition of what’s appropriate. A newspaper ran a story without evidence or confirmation from those involved. As in subsequent cases where politicians have taken the lead, media needs to be reminded that the…[Read more]

I’m in Perth so haven’t seen the production but given Alison’s long essay about theatre criticism and how it often resorts to “commentary that’s all about spectacle at the expense of substance”, I am disappointed to read such disparaging and dismissive comments like “classic patriarchal heteronormative form”. Its pomposity aside, theatre should s…[Read more]