RealTime E-dition 26 July 2017

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Adelaide's OzAsia Festival proves more than ever to be vitally enticing with a program featuring great artists and works unfamiliar to Australian audiences. This week in an interview with Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell we focus on key performance works including those from Japan by theatre-maker Kuro Tanino, conjuring haunting inner worlds, and leading composer and experimentalist Keiichiro Shibuya, probing the mind of a virtual performer, the massively popular Miku Hatsune (image above) in The End, an opera he's written for her. An acclaimed five-hour play from Singapore's W!LD RICE courses through 100 years of the city state's history. Next week we look at inventive Asian-Australian collaborations and, later, the festival's fascinating visual arts showings. As Peter Dutton takes control of state power and foreshadows the end of compulsory voting with his referendum by postal vote — in the age of the internet! — OzAsia invites a greater sense of distance from what it is to be, often all too lazily, Australian. Keith & Virginia

OZASIA FESTIVAL 2017: EPICALLY PERSONAL Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell describes a program that frames the personal within mythology, history and gender, with artists setting the agenda for 21st century performance.

THE DRAMA OF TRAUMA Jonathan W Marshall experiences Ochre Contemporary Dance Company and The Farm's Good Little Soldier as a striking collection of set-pieces with an absorbing sense of danger and possibility.

THE ROLES THAT CONSTRAIN Leading Brisbane actor and theatre-maker Margi Brown Ash's double bill — He Dreamed a Train and Eve — about family tragedy and an unsung Australian literary talent prompts Victoria Carless to reflect on the roles we are all cast to play.

BE YOUR SELF, ON THE ROAD Garry Stewart's visceral and intellectually provocative Be Your Self plays in Melbourne 2-5 August prior to a wide-ranging ADT tour. Watch this 2012 realtime tv interview with excerpts from the performance.

OF RACISM & DESECRATION Disapol Savetsila's Australian Graffiti has its moments: flashes of crisp, acerbic dialogue, grim physical comedy, deft character delineation, vivid arguments and some emotionally sensitive exchanges but is otherwise underdeveloped.

JENNIFER KENT, THE BABADOOK INTERVIEW On the occasion of our DVD giveaway of The Babadook, already recognised as a canonical Australian horror film, we revisit Katerina Sakkas' illuminating interview with director Jennifer Kent.

SOME OTHER SWAN Andrew Fuhrmann argues that Natalie Abbott's (re)PURPOSE: the MVMNT "aspires to the condition of critical apparatus, and yet it struggles to convey the necessary intimate knowledge of history and aesthetics and culture."

CANYON CINEMA: RADICALISING REPRESENTATION Alongside spiky politics, Kate Robertson identifies freedom of cinematic form and lushness of ideas in a retrospective of American women’s 16mm filmmaking.

VALE TONY WOODS 1940-2017
Sadly, Tony Woods, a highly inventive Australian visual artist whose films and light-filled paintings we have long admired, died unexpectedly in June.

GIVEAWAY:
THE BABADOOK DVD
We have three copies, courtesy of Umbrella Entertainment, of this already classic, haunted-house horror film, in which a family home harbours the unspoken terrors and taboos of parenthood.

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