Since writers at Fairfax went on strike just over a week ago there has been a sudden increase in locally generated arts stories that are actually interesting. Maybe they should go on strike more often.
In Saturday's Spectrum, Bryce Hallett wrote a great feature on Barrie Kosky and Tom Wright (with a fantastic photo of Kosky standing outside a closet as Wright is coming out).
Relative newbie, Louise Schwartkoff gave us a great news item about the latest Performance Space show from a Perth based collective who put on street theatre based around an anti-civil disobedience taskforce.
Valerie Lawson did a great interview piece about poet Robert Gray, also in Spectrum over the weekend where Gray talks about 'the exhilaration of looking'. Unfortunately this article isn't online.
And today there was a great piece about Damien Millar's new play The Modern International Dead which is opening tonight at the Stables. I must admit to be quietly really looking forward to seeing this. Having just recently read Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) which Millar also staged as a play, this production directed by Chris Mead and designed by Genevieve Blanchett should be a bit great.
Now, if we can just sort out that Ravenhill piece, the SMH could very well be making a bit of a comeback. The scary question, however, is who out of the arts writers will get the chop in the latest round of Fairfax redundancies?
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