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The liminal area between teendom and adulthood, between Sydney and Melbourne, between friends and enemies, between ad breaks. Everything that happens within is transitional and temporary: “all we do [at Troy’s house] is recount the last event and talk about the next one.”
‘Blithe Spirit’ is a 3-act performance that acts as an absolute testament to what student theatre can be.
I often found myself wishing I had an extra eye to see the splendour of it all.
After all, the Quad was a great place to be lost in, every path ended in a class, a corridor or a gateway.
A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.
Play On, written and directed by Gemma Hudson, is an ambitious and exciting cross of And Then There Were None with Heathers.
Coffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.
Our university has an awful lot of stuff.
Names give character, imply history, and best of all, bring life to the spaces to which they are assigned.
Photographs of Lake Northam in the late 1800s reveal a sprawling body of water worthy of the now-overstated title ‘Lake’.
Brilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics
It wasn’t until I opened an alumni account that I finally came to terms with losing access to my university emails.
Binary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.
Danial Yazdani’s adaptation of the American classic honours the complexities of Australian immigrant experiences.
From tea room to bomb shelter to jazz bar.
Crackling with the electricity of theatre, Heat Lightning captures characters grappling with economic hardship and emotional unrest.
Fun, fantastical, and hot off the press, StuJo! The Musical serves up a loving tribute to all things campus journalism.
Off-Offstage is structured as a variety show, featuring monologues, group performances, and songs performed by its motley cast of SUDS members who have (presumably) suffered through the epic highs and lows of HSC Drama themselves.
Paintings, photographs and sculptures are scattered throughout campus, sitting on walls and perched in unassuming corners.
Forget the whole schtick about the wagging art student drinking turpentine, University is making art purely academic.
Imaginative theatre has a new set of puppet masters
Free of curses but full of bricks, USyd’s newest LEGO model is a sight to see.
There’s nothing more Popular than laughter.
The theatre kids are having an election
MUSE makes a wager on a classic musical and wins big.
SUDS’ penultimate slot delivers biting social commentary and razor-sharp performances.
The veritable Brendon Uries of Australia’s top-ranked medical school parlayed three years of momentum into what was, at times, a double-edged sword.
A war of wind, a skirmish of sounds, and a tussle of tunes.
Is your favourite food authentic? Does your favourite restaurant serve authentic food? Could you be authentic food?
Instagram handles are the new frontier; a form of advertising yourself; an iconic tag; a brand.
These threads remember the life and the fight of the people forever.
A transparent exchange afforded by three consenting partners: cash, broker, and consumer.
Improvisation is the act of conjuring for the instant, an adventure in entropy.
Today, winged eyeliner and black double grommet belts seem enough to constitute belonging, with “goth” and “punk” being thrown around in place of “emo”.
In conversation with Kim Jimin of Meaningful Stone — on 90’s rock bands, surfing and the spiritual power of the universal subconscious.
Music has always found mysterious ways of permeating borders, from sea-faring music boxes containing fragments of exotic sounds to Soundcloud links proliferated online.
There’s an almost irreconcilable discord between the Sydney coffee culture projected by mainstream food publications and the realities of most Sydneysiders.
The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.
There is perhaps one thing that unites every Australian town — an institution that has been embedded in our national story since the 18th century: the Australian-Chinese restaurant.
There is something unpretentious and humble about the Asian bakery.
A microwave lasagne made me want to cry
This mouth-watering seasoning is the missing answer to many food crises.
Although Australia’s natural landscape has been decimated by concrete and industry since colonisation, if you know where to look, the city remains a rich supermarket of edible delights.
The choctop shift can be tranquil, humbling, and quietly frustrating.
Restaurants come and go, seamlessly replacing the previous business’ facade with new signage and unique branding.
Merivale possesses a discreet chokehold on Sydney’s hospitality industry.
Celebrate a special occasion with a dear friend or loved one with this decadent recipe for how to cook everyone’s favourite semi-aquatic, denim-rocking invertebrate.
Sydney is chock-a-block full of small bars: rooftop bars, basement bars, dive bars and pubs.
Art, in its purest sense, is to create, while policing, is to destroy.
Suspended between death and life, the vampire occupies a liminal space wherein typical boundaries can be blurred.
Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?
Unlike Vampira and Elvira, Morticia is a wife and mother, but it goes without saying that she represents much more than that. She wants it all, and refreshingly, she never asks why she shouldn’t have it.
The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.
There is perhaps one thing that unites every Australian town — an institution that has been embedded in our national story since the 18th century: the Australian-Chinese restaurant.
There is something unpretentious and humble about the Asian bakery.
To be human, is to be a supermarket stroller.
A split requires the relinquishing of self to another and for another.
How happy I would be
To be a prisoner
Of another skin.
These threads remember the life and the fight of the people forever.
To me, female friendship is getting ready for a night out, gossiping and laughing until your belly hurts, being your most vulnerable self, as you would be with a sister, or a mother.
Clothing is my means of connection, both to myself and the world around me.
As August appears every year, so does a discrete package at the footstep of my family home.
I mean it. Honestly.
Want an alternative to those dreadful Dendy straws?
Become the fairest of them all with 1355’s biggest summer trends.
Achieving strong liminality is like landing a coin on its edge: a difficult feat but the effect is impossible to substitute.
Childhood imagination – strangled dead from this codified, mundane and despairing task of appropriating (dressing) ourselves – was revived.
It’s like realising you’ve left your umbrella behind somewhere, but worse.
Every life spread out, mine parallel to yours parallel to everyone else’s.
