We Are the World
✮✮✮✮ Lucy Kirkwood's The Children Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Sarah Goodes Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children imagines what it would be like, if an all-consuming ecological disaster were to strike today. Instead of the pandemonium surrounding earthquakes and tsunamis, we see an aftermath involving three scientists who are partly responsible for the catastrophe. It is a story about technology, concerned with the way inhabitants of the developed world are failing to f
Enter the Dragon
✮✮✮ 1/2 Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Kip Williams Massacres, no matter how catastrophic, can get forgotten. Unlike the 9/11 attacks that we memorialise everyday, fuelled partially by economic imperatives of the USA. Incidents such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have faded away with time, and in this particular case, with rigorous effort on the part of Chinese officials. The arresting image of a man standing in front of battle
