Things Big, Yellow, and Bench-like.
“I am not against big benches, per se. Rather, what I am against is The Big Yellow USU Bench. In truth, I abhor it with every fibre of my being. There is something wretchedly ironic about its existence, about its pathetic pleading.”
In our Thousands in our Millions
“The fight for Palestine is a fight that everyone must be involved in — the fight against war and imperialism is a fight for a better world for all of us.”
Retrospective
PULP continues to be PULP, whatever that means to you. Just not your grandma’s orange juice, and definitely not your favourite Britpop band.
SUDS Slot 4, 2024: Deathwatch, a review
Whilst these adaptations are perfectly fine, there’s an anachronism that can accompany any production put to stage from another era. There’s merit in rote for rote recreations, but I will always prefer a distortion of a classic akin to what Zoe Le Marinel, Jasmine Jenkins, and their team have put to the stage with SUDS Slot 4’s Deathwatch (1947) by Jean Genet.
'Troy's House' (2023) SUDS: Review
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.”
SUDS' 'Blithe Spirit' review: "a lovely little farce"
‘Blithe Spirit’ is a 3-act performance that acts as an absolute testament to what student theatre can be.
Evidence, Everywhere, All at Once: Law Revue 2023 Review
I often found myself wishing I had an extra eye to see the splendour of it all.
The great first day
After all, the Quad was a great place to be lost in, every path ended in a class, a corridor or a gateway.
You couldn’t look back if you tried: SUDS 'Eurydice' Review
A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.
Friendship, nostalgia, and isolation: SUDS 'Play On' Review
Play On, written and directed by Gemma Hudson, is an ambitious and exciting cross of And Then There Were None with Heathers.
Coffee to cure your architectural in(digest)ion
Coffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.
Finding a name for the PULP office
Names give character, imply history, and best of all, bring life to the spaces to which they are assigned.
New Lake Northam bridge continues long legacy of pond pathway
Photographs of Lake Northam in the late 1800s reveal a sprawling body of water worthy of the now-overstated title ‘Lake’.
REVIEW: SUDS’ Double O’Bill: The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Soprano - A murder mystery and a middle-class satire walk into a Cellar
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
Eternal sunshine of the spotless alumni
It wasn’t until I opened an alumni account that I finally came to terms with losing access to my university emails.
Review: SUDS' Arcadia makes the pendulum swing
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.
Review: SUDS' The Glass Menagerie - celebrating Australia's diaspora
Danial Yazdani’s adaptation of the American classic honours the complexities of Australian immigrant experiences.
Review: SUDS' Heat Lightning - Raising The Red Bandana
Crackling with the electricity of theatre, Heat Lightning captures characters grappling with economic hardship and emotional unrest.