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Blockbuster: Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Lucy Sussex
by John Arnold •
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson & Great Shakespeare Actors by Stanley Wells
by John Rickard •
Furphies and Whizz-Bangs: ANZAC slang from the Great War by Amanda Laugesen
by John Arnold •
The Menzies Era: The years that shaped modern Australia by John Howard
by James Walter •
Triumph and Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation by Paul Kelly
by James Walter •
Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall has now been dramatised, along with its sequel, Bring up the Bodies. Brian McFarlane, a regular ABR film and theatre critic, caught the new Royal Shakespeare Company production in London.
If, like me, you were not a fan of Hilary Mantel’s historical doorstops, Wolf Hall (2009) ...
Stage Blood: Five Tempestuous Years in the Early Life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore
by Brian McFarlane •
Film-wise, 2013 has been the year of adapting dangerously. Dangerously, that is, in the sense of daring to affront devoted readers of the original novels or plays, valuing enterprise over fidelity. Now, just after admirable versions of Much Ado about Nothing and What Maisie Knew have finished their runs, we have director–screenwriter Andrew Ada ...