Can聽psychedelic drugs help people who are facing death cope with their fears and emotions? That question is examined in聽Dosed 2: the trip of a lifetime, a new Canadian documentary.聽Barry Healy reviews.
Film & theatre
With classy production values, consummate acting and tasteful direction, Margrete: Queen of the North聽is a very humane couple of hours of cinema.聽Barry Healy聽reviews.
A new collection of essays聽chronicles Australia鈥檚 radical New Theatre, writes Maree F Roberts, where women took on prominent roles, including as creative and production directors, and playwrights.
Oil is a sprawling and epic play, spanning 160 years, which traces the petroleum industry鈥檚 problematic history and future. Barry Healy reviews.
Danger is omnipresent in this documentary by Australian filmmaker,聽Karl Malakunus, which accompanies unarmed environmental聽campaigners in the Philippines, as they confront illegal loggers and fishers. Barry Healy 谤别惫颈别飞蝉.听听
Artist and playwright Jepke Goudsmit presents her impressions of Patricio Guzman's new documentary on Chile's second revolution.
Derived from a police assault on the聽the R奴膩toki valley T奴hoe hap奴 community in 2007,聽Muru聽is a powerful response that has shaken Aotearoa New Zealand. The film's writer/director,聽Tearepa Kahi and lead figure, Tame Iti explained the significance to聽Barry Healy.
The forthcoming Black Swan Theatre Company production of Oil聽asks the question: "How do we manage our finite resources? Is there any resource more infinite than love?"聽Barry Healy reports.
Cloaked in mesmerising cinematography and flashy special effects, the American production company Marvel has been instrumental in promoting militarism, writes Jessica Buxbaum.
Rachel Perkins' new series,聽The Australian Wars, is a powerful history of colonial wars of occupation against First Nations peoples, writes Andrew Chuter.
Perth's Black Swan Theatre Company has raised the profile of sport-related concussion in a new play,聽Barracking for the Umpire聽and by organising a public forum on the subject.聽Barry Healy reports.
Quant is a new documentary examining the impact of fashion designer Mary Quant, whose style became synonymous with "swinging 鈥60s" London.聽Barry Healy聽reviews.
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