A MAN WALKS TO A DESK. He sits, lights a cigarette. Following this, another scene, which appears to be from a different film. Cigarette still in hand, the man smiles, turns away from the viewer deflecting our gaze, our knowing. Our eyes drift between scenes each either resembling or differing from the one that preceded it. Memories of this famous actor, the ever-suave Tony Leung Chiu Wai, intrude upon our vision (Didn’t I see him in . . . ?), only for us to sink back into the never-ending cascade of images. Who is this character? Was the turn or flick of his cigarette a feint, or a moment of betrayal? Beginning in familiarity, we recede into a mist of unknowing.
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Thriving then decimated: the year that was - and wasn t - in theatre
Thriving then decimated: the year that was - and wasn t - in theatre
By Cameron Woodhead
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Theatre people will be as glad as anyone to see the curtain close on 2020. Melbourne is rightly proud of its performing arts culture, and until March this year – before the longest theatre closures in modern Australian history – it was in full bloom.
Black Ties reimagines the rom-com from a First Nations perspective.
Credit:Steven Siewert
Last summer feels like a distant era now. Looking back, it exemplified a dynamic, outward-looking, globally interconnected hub of performance Melbourne had come to take for granted.