RealTime E-dition 1 May 2018

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Happy May Day — International Workers' Day! And welcome to our 2018 series of occasional reviews and, soon, copious surprising highlights from and reflections on 24 years of RealTime publishing, culminating later in the year in a number of open forums. We and our writers will be assaying what happened in the arts in Australia over the last quarter of a century, registering huge shifts in ideas, forms and engagement with audiences, science and new technological tools. To be able to look back in a society so preoccupied with the present is an all too rare opportunity to gauge in a considered way just what comprises 'now' and what might come next. We hope our reflections will encourage your own and that you'll share them with us. Soon we'll be posting searchable PDFs of the first 40 editions of RealTime, 1994-2000, on our website, providing an opportunity to browse a period of remarkable cultural ferment. In the meantime, in the first of our occasional reviews we applaud Sydney Theatre Company's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Sydney Chamber Opera's The Howling Girls and Readymade Works' Happy Hour. Keith & Virginia

VOICING TRAUMA Pictorially and sonically immersive, Sydney Chamber Opera's wordless The Howling Girls is a remarkable celebration of the voice and a continuation of the feminist project to depathologise and give voice to the extremes of women's experiences.

READYMADE WORKS’ VERY HAPPY HOUR Martin del Amo and Anton, Nikki Heywood and Tony Osborne, and Kathy Cogill manifested intriguing personae in a program with which curator Julie-Anne Long celebrated the art of too-little-seen experienced independent Sydney performers.

DEMOCRACY'S DEATH DANCE
With choreographic verve, cinematic prowess and a topically resonant translation by Tom Wright, director Kip Williams realises Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for STC as a swirling parable of democratic defeat.

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RealTime E-ditions are published by Open City an Incorporated Association in New South Wales. Open City Inc is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy [VACS], an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

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