In Banana Republic a group of young friends turn their living arrangements on their head when they start up a commune at home. Things go off the rails when one of the flatmates starts online stock trading with the communal money and the house suffers its own version of the GFC. Written by Anthony Noack. Directed by Iris Gaillard. Set design by Avi Wanono Featuring Andi Snelling, Scott Jackson, Alex Duncan and Matt Furlani. Melbourne Fringe festival. 26th September - 7th October. 7pm @ The Owl & The Pussycat, 34 Swan St. Richmond Reviews 'Banana Republic is an extremely clever satire on modern economics, politics, media, and the moral confusion of Generation Y. It brings a light touch to these weighty topics with plenty of deft wordplay and sight gags.' - Mileta Rein
Visible Ink is the RMIT literary journal and this year I've signed my life away to edit it along with Alison Karayan, Allison Browning and Drew Roberts. It's been an intense year and steep learning curve, but after what seemed like a forever of editing and proof-reading, we picked up copies of the journal from the printers today. You can secure your copy through Readings in Carlton. http://www.readings.com.au/product/9780980604818/lost-and-found-visible-ink-21
I’m the product of my education, grammatically speaking. For me, like many who were educated after slate and chalk became unfashionable, as far as English grammar was concerned, a conjunction was a planetary event occasionally mentioned in the astrology column, and a split infinitive was something to do with Star Trek. I think Scottie used one to power up the warp drive in series three. Once the basics of doing, naming and describing words had been covered, my high school English classes were devoted to over-analysing and over-acting Shakespeare. Along the way we wrote some short stories and somehow picked up the grammatical rules we needed in order to be understood. This system developed in the progressive atmosphere of the swingin’ sixties. Educators who had suffered through the drumming of archaic rules into their heads as children, used the spirit of the times to re-imagine the school system. Creative writing henceforth became the tool through which grammar was to be learnt, provi...
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