...Your'e Sure Of A Big Surprise ...Lally Katz's transitional object from Hell, the Apocalypse Bear, began 'bruin' (sorry brewing) in her mind after seeing a shelf of motley teddy bears in a suburban chemist shop. The beast that emerged, a spectral figure clad in the dodgiest-looking of panto teddy bear costumes, began it's reign of subtle terror in miniature films where the Bear made nocturnal visits to suburbia, interrupting a woman's late night call from a public phone box and a young man's post-fellatory hallucinations in a public toilet. The Apocalypse Bear seems to enjoy traumatising gay boys the most ...
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Some of you may remember the Apocalypse Bear from our first season of Melburnalia. Penned by the inimitable Lally Katz, The Fag from Zagreb (set in leafy Kew) was an eldritch subversion of domestic bliss in which a schoolboy comes home to find an ominously caring bear in place of his mother and sister. Darkly hilarious, it [...]
Back in 2000 I was, for six months, a writer-in-residence in the hallowed halls of academe, viz. Cambridge University. This was a most interesting time in my life, not least because I am completely innocent of academic qualifications. This didn't prevent my hosts from (just in case, I suppose) painting DR CROGGON in gold lettering above the door of my rooms, which is the closest I will ever get
The Music Hall has been a persuasive means of telling as well as a metaphor for some very good and even very great plays. Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War as a means and John Osborne's The Entertainer as a metaphor are two that spring to mind. The music hall setting, music hall style songs and looming First World War nudge Lally Katz's Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd towards the Littlewood camp, but in Charle Mudd the War never comes, the music hall isn’t really a music hall and the songs aren’t really music hall songs. Mudd’s vaudeville castle ...
Ms TN flew back into the smoke haze of Victoria yesterday afternoon. It was all a bit spooky, peering out from my little metal tube 38,000 feet in the sky and watching this sunburned, smoke-scarred landscape below, all dry dams and empty rivers and bare paddocks. An aerial view gives a dramatic and rather frightening picture of just how drought-stricken Victoria is: you just can't see its aridity
A story dealing with one of the most shocking murders committed by a young person in recent Australian history might be a surprising subject for Arena Theatre Company, an organisation for and about youth. Even more surprising is the bringing together of two of the most formidable emerging writers, Lally Katz and Tom Wright to author it. Based on the murder in 1997 of the engineer, Joe Cinque who was murdered by law student lover Anu Singh, the same event that Helen Garner explored in her book Joe Cinque's Consolation.Criminology is based on fact but is a fictional account of ...
