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Yasmin Coe… “I had dreams of doing something with chocolate or pastry.” Photo: Belinda Strahorn
Former Lib leader Alistair Coe is over it and out of it, the curtain comes down on Canberra’s queen of culture and a bouquet for the town’s best music critics. It’s “Seven Days” with
IAN MEIKLE. and now we know. Think Willy Wonka.
Ian Meikle.
After 12 years of banging his head against Labor, the former opposition leader is escaping the territory’s rapacious rates regime for a sweet life in the country.
Al stuck his head (and his hand) up at a recent auction and snagged retiring
“CityNews” musical theatre writer, Bill Stephens (left), and playwright Bart Meehan, have joined forces to create a new play series on ArtSound FM public radio.
THE extraordinary longevity of radio as a live entertainment form is fast realising its potential for reinvigorating the art of playwriting, and Canberra is experiencing the phenomenon, too.
Over the last couple of years, for instance, The Street Theatre and Canberra Rep have staged radio plays, and the resurrected Papermoon Theatre Company has a podcast series, “Paper Moon Radio Theater”.
Now, retired admin officer at the ANU, playwright Bart Meehan, and “CityNews” musical theatre writer, Bill Stephens, have joined forces to create a new play series on ArtSound FM public radio that seems likely to continue into the future.