First published for the 2018 Sydney Festival. Just over 15 years ago in a huge hall in Moore Park, a Spanish man covered in blood screamed in my face while swinging a huge sword over his head.  He was Macbeth, King of Scotland, and he was in a rage, wrenching his body and howling in…

Hot Brown Honey: new wave of First Nations artists tell their story in new ways Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Standing atop a huge beehive-shaped stage undulating with golden lights, Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers raps out to the crowd. “In the hive, flavours infuse, rebellion brews, as defiance stews,” she…

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Sad clown: No laughing matter Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size There is a common belief that comedians are funny to escape their sadness; that often, behind the jokes, pratfalls and silly voices, there hides a depressed, tortured clown, squeezing laughs from audiences in an attempt to evade crippling melancholia.