Sunday Arts Magazine

15 Nov 2015

Archibald, WIT Inc 2016, Emma-Marie Jones, Music, Hamlet, Reviews

Arts, Music, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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David and Brendan are our hosts today. Daniel has tonsillitis. David saw the Archibald Prize portraits shown at the Art Gallery of Ballarat before the exhibition closed on 15th November. The portraits were presented beautifully by the gallery but David considered the overall quality not outstanding. Only a couple stood out.
Brendan saw the latest Bond film called Spectre starring Daniel Craig. He had a ball with it. It has a cracking pace, stylish costumes, great supporting cast and a lovely older Bond ‘girl’–Monica Bellucci 4 stars.

Special guests today are:

15:59 to 33:42 mins–Jennifer from Wit Incorporated (originally West Independent Theatre), an artist-led theatre ensemble based in Footscray and catering to the inner West. It’s been going for about 2 years. Their entire 2016 season is programmed to perform at the Bluestone Church Art Space in Footscray owned and run by Maribyrnong Council who have been very supportive. It’s not set up as a theatre space so is interesting to work with. Jennifer’s background includes broadcasting, politics, bartending & arts management. She and another in WIT write plays but they also collaborate with artists outside the group. There are 4 new works in the 2016 season, as well as Macbeth—In all works they consider the storytelling and human relationships to be a core value. The spectacle can come after. They’ll be starting off with Couch Potato 12th to 27th February, 2016 an original play by Hayley-Lawson Smith about how ‘one small break-in can save a family’. Apart from their website, WIT’s other contacts are FB—wearewit, Twitter—wearewitter and Instagram—instawits. Please take photos of any outside couches and tag them to share on Instagram.

45:53 to 1:07:34 mins–Writer and Editor Emma-Marie Jones has been shortlisted for the Scribe non-fiction prize for young writers under 30 which will be announced on 3rd December at the Express Media Awards. She’d written since she was a child. Teachers were encouraging at school and she learnt the disciplines and techniques of creative writing at uni, which she enjoyed. She freelances as a copywriter and writes a variety of text including poems, essays, critiques, short stories. She makes some money that way. The crtiteria for the Scribe prize was a piece of non-fiction (a broad term) limited to 10k words. Emma-Marie used a part of her thesis which she calls ‘nonfictocriticism’. It is a critical memoir which is quite experimental about grief and identity—based on her own experience looking at how grief can make someone’s identity ‘plural’ and change it irrevocably. Also, regarding the non-fiction genre she asks What is truth itself? The internal experience of truth rather than the universal one. She and our hosts discuss grief, events in Paris, EM’s writing style and research she did for the competition, her future plans, and possible collaborations.

Other arts topics our host discuss are as follows:

Brendan saw Florence and The Machine perform at the Myer Music Bowl. He and David discuss the group, the music and Florence herself. He also saw a film of the London National Theatre Live production of Hamlet showing exclusively at The Nova Cinema. It is the fastest ever selling theatre production in the UK and it stars Benedict Cumberbatch who is the title star. Brendan was impressed with Ben and the whole production. Chvrches (sic) is one of B’s favourite band. He discovered them 2 or 3 years ago at The Laneway Festival in Footscray. They’ll be here at The Forum on February 9th and 10th. Bit indie, bit pop. Brendan reviews 2 films 1) Mistress America, the latest film from director Noah Baumbach starring Greta Gerwig. An Indie, cutsie film with an 80s soundtrack which packs a punch at the end. It’s about an extraverted New Yorker who takes a shy young newcomer (to NY) under her wing and how they eventually find they’re very similar 4 stars. 2) 99 Homes—starring Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon & Laura Dern about the housing crisis in 2010. A man who has his house taken away by the bank decides to join the shady character who evicted him and make some money. A drama with some thriller element. David recommends to check out the TV series The Leftovers. It’s wonderfully weird.

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