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  • in a canberra cafe
    A woman is weeping by the door. I turn from my early morning coffee to see her squatting by a table on the floor. Another woman wearing a r...
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    Simon Phillips (Director) and John Frost (Producer) Stephen Sondheim will attend opening night of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to ...
  • Hidden Treasure in the Burbs - McAlpin Reserve
    Ever been to Ringwood North? Know about McAlpin Reserve? It has to be one of the most serene places in Melbourne's suburbs. Read m...
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    I first encountered  My Brilliant Career  as a film when I was fifteen. I was, then, the same age Miles Franklin was when she wrote it, a...
  • Acting Courses at VCA (Adults, VCE Drama students, and secondary students)
    Victorian College of the Arts is offering short courses for aspiring thespians this coming school holiday break in Melbourne. VCE Drama...
  • mothering: prevention, protection, permission and paralysis
    So much for minding your own business. The other night I was watching the news, when Victoria Police's Deputy Commissioner, Ken Lay, ca...
  • Singing in the Spring
    Singing anyone? It feels like just the time to do it! I'm running a Sing-Up to welcome in the Spring on September 9th. You'...
  • 10 Party Games for Melbourne Cup Day
    I'm no racing enthusiast. For my household the end of the AFL season signals many suddenly unfilled hours. Racing, I'm afraid, is l...
  • the fence
    The fence is falling over. I can see it from the car. It pouts like a protruding lower lip, as if any moment it will be overcome, and col...
  • Review: Fame (Lilydale High School)
    In the outskirts of Melbourne’s east, where the metropolitan train line comes to a halt, Lilydale High School’s 60-strong cast ...

some published work

  • 10 Ideas for the Queen's Birthday
  • 10 fun study-break ideas
  • 10 ways to embrace the winter months
  • 60 years of melbourne gang show
  • 60th melbourne gang show (review)
  • 8 Events for a Spiritual Easter
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013
  • a masked ball (review)
  • a storm in a D cup (review)
  • adventures of butt boy and tigger (review)
  • afghanistan: Hidden treasures exhibition
  • all the world's a stage for amazing performing arts teacher
  • annie (review)
  • annie returns to Oz
  • at last: the etta james story (review)
  • autumn 'road trip' by foot
  • backstage at MTC-HQ
  • behind the phantom's mask: meet Ben Lewis
  • bell shakespeare - the comedy or errors
  • big workplace sing 2013
  • blak-bangarra dance theatre (review)
  • blaze (review)
  • bluff circuit walk, barwon heads
  • botanica
  • breaking point - why you can't see a GP
  • cafe scheherazade (review)
  • cavalia (review)
  • cavalia comes to town
  • ceremony a real pushover
  • charles dickens presents a christmas carol (review)
  • circus oz cranked up at the big top
  • circus oz under-construction
  • circus oz: cranked up (review)
  • circus oz: steampowered (review)
  • clybourne park-mtc (review)
  • contact! operatic soapie invades suburban netball court
  • contact! the netball musical (review)
  • delivering our daily bread
  • designing love never dies
  • die young and have a good looking corpse
  • dubai mall (activity review)
  • entech 2012: hot stuff at techie mecca
  • family battle brims with hope
  • federation playspace, warrandyte (review)
  • flowerchildren (theatre works review)
  • flowerchildren - comedy theatre (review)
  • geoffrey rush reveals unsung sondheim lyrics
  • grievous angel: the legend of gram parsons (review)
  • guitar perspectives
  • hairspray: a 'brand new do' in theatre technology
  • hamer hall reopens in glittering style
  • hamer hall reopens: is it $136 million well spent?
  • happy ending-mtc (review)
  • happy rehearsal campers at ringwood
  • himmelweg (review)
  • how to host a 'super moon' party
  • how to train your dragon - arena spectacular (review)
  • htc: summer of the 17th doll (review)
  • i animal (review)
  • in memory of carolyn, a theatre
  • legally blonde opens in melbourne
  • lloyd webber in town: sneak-peek at love never dies
  • love never dies (review)
  • mademoiselle (review)
  • magnormos: taking flower children to the comedy
  • mcalpin reserve, ringwood north (review)
  • meet king kong
  • melbourne orphans announced on annie's 35th birthday
  • miss ophelia (review)
  • moonshadow (review)
  • moonshadow shines through gloomy melbourne morning
  • moonshadow: world premiere for melbourne
  • my son, the vegetarian
  • next to normal (review)
  • other desert cities (review)
  • outdoor theatre: the joys and perils
  • profile: justin burford
  • quit horsing around, this is puppetry
  • ray lawler: summer of our 90th year
  • recipe for success
  • red rock regional theatre and gallery, cororooke
  • ringwood lake park
  • river walk at barwon heads
  • rock of ages (review)
  • romeo and juliet (review)
  • rsc: kiss me kate (review)
  • rsc: sweet charity (review)
  • savages (review)
  • savages by patricia cornelius
  • school holidays for theatre lovers
  • singin' in the rain (review)
  • sneak peek: how to train your dragon
  • sondheim gets ticket to melbourne forum
  • south pacific (review)
  • south pacific: its mccune, tahu rhodes, ceberano and perfect
  • spring into ANZAC
  • starchaser (review)
  • success no stretch for glen iris gymnast
  • tape (review)
  • the confidence man (review)
  • the crucible (review)
  • the dollhouse (review)
  • the giraffe's uncle (review)
  • the laramie project 10 years later (review)
  • the man in black - johnny cash story
  • the mountain (mtc review)
  • the neighbours taste like....chicken?
  • the seed (review)
  • the trip (review)
  • top activities for families at barwon heads
  • traditional easter cake
  • twice through trauma
  • vaulting to success in glen waverley
  • vienna on fire
  • vika bull to narrate etta james' life
  • wagner roos welcome ring nuts
  • war horse - the international juggernaut to hit melbourne
  • wheels of friendship
  • william buckley: the go-between

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