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An Attempt at a Productive Conversation with a Conservative: A Fantasy Saga

07/06/2017

How do you chat politics with a Tory (without frothing at the mouth)? Invent one....

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings

01/06/2017

Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak - Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies...

Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs

31/05/2017

Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort...

Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self...

Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?

05/05/2017

Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think?...

They Might Be Dragons! Inventing Trauma for Population Control

28/04/2017

State manufactured fear is a phantom which can never be fought. But it can be ignored....

Shake, not Spin: How To Interpret Political Debates

25/04/2017

Post-Trump, Post-Brexit, we now know that there's a trick to interpreting political debate. ...

Mastering Fear: A User Guide

20/04/2017

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

Sci-Fi London: Film, Music, Literature and Canine Cosplay #SFL17

18/04/2017

Ten days of sci-fi film, live music, immersive experiences and more...

Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

War Profiteering and the Business of Slaughter. Ker-Ching!

11/04/2017

Let’s call the oligarchy of the elite what they are. Murderers. Cold blooded, remorseless murderers. ...

Thanatopolis II: Ghostly Frescoes, Industrial Art (at Waterloo)

10/04/2017

Thanatopolis II: An Evening with Autopsia...

Voudoun and the Book of The Law

07/04/2017

Sloppy thinking and lack of spiritual purpose has allowed agents of discord to invade our shared idea space...

Madam Hillary, Time to Go Home

05/04/2017

In US politics, dignity is a rare commodity. Which doesn't stop Madam Hillary burning what's left of hers....

Unexpected, Imaginative Experiences… with Whalley Range All Stars

03/04/2017

Security stopped us because we Went Too Far.... Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre...

Loitered Lens: Beyond the Beat at the Royal Albert Hall

26/03/2017

Previews of Julio Etchart's photography from the Beyond the Beat exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall...

Womadelaide Walkabout: Friday Flashbacks

25/03/2017

Starting hot, WOMADelaide got hotter still with the activist politics of Ana Tijoux and the Slavic blues of Warsaw Village Band...

Play the Body: Screenwriting for Visceral Viewing

24/03/2017

Good screenwriting prompts reactions in the body as well as the mind. How so?...

Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly

23/03/2017

The rubble of Trump's presidency will form fertile ground for resistance - if we act now....

WOMADelaide Walkabout, Part One.

22/03/2017

A quarter century in, does WOMADelaide still deliver?...

Visceral Viewing: Screenwriting for the Human Brain(s)

20/03/2017

Effective screenwriters not only aim for psychological effect - they seek to create 'visceral viewing'....

Our job, as puppeteers, is to disappear: Frolicked Outdoor Puppet Theatre

16/03/2017

Puppetry has a quality that allows us, as puppeteers, to get very close to people...

Nothing Changes: Isn’t ‘Deep State’ just the ‘Civil Service’?

15/03/2017

Whatever you choose to call it, the wheels within wheels always have the power...

Let Me Think, But Not Much: Screenwriting and the Brain(s)

13/03/2017

100 Problems, but as long as they're someone else's, we're locked to our seats....

Disbelief is right there all the time: Maynard Flip Flap

11/03/2017

Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap's Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth....

Art can provide a mirror to people’s lives: Company Chameleon

10/03/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”D/dropcapance tends to find a way, regardless of setting. Comforting as it may be, there is no real need to invoke the Billy Elliot myth of...

USA as World’s Policeman? We’re Going to Need More Coffins

09/03/2017

If the USA is 'the world's policeman', is it any wonder the world is so scared?...

Shake Your Inner Monkey: Movie Screenwriting and The Limbic Brain

07/03/2017

Sex, Politics, Celebrity: What's on your monkey mind?...

‘I’m sure she knew she was talking to a puppet’: The Flying Buttresses

04/03/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaprebuchet applies its right to invoke Henson’s Law. (Henson’s Law: Even the world’s best CGI will look dated in a...

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