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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Dramas at Home
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First there was an open-air version of Into the Woods at Regent’s Park, then David Suchet and Zoë Wanamaker in All My Sons at the Apollo Theatre, and finally Siân Phillips in Lovesong at the Lyric, Hammersmith. I didn’t leave home, it cost me less than the price of a theatre program, and I may have been watching the beginning of an e-theatre revolution.
British-based Digital Theatre films live performance, which it packages and sells through the internet. Through their website you can hire a play, opera or ballet to watch, or download to own. You can also take out a very cheap monthly subscription for a changing selection of titles on YouTube which can also be viewed on computers, mobile devices and televisions.
These are not recordings of an event from a cameraman in the front row, or from a camera sweeping high over the auditorium. We are on stage with the performers. Fixed cameras around the auditorium and on stage are controlled from a central point. Two…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
