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Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes to the stage with a glorious intensity of purpose

The idea of the titular Crow in Ted Hughes’ poems is wild, untameable and irreducible to words. In an early poem in the sequence, words come at Crow from all angles but he just ignores them. Finally, “Words retreated, suddenly afraid / Into the skull of a dead jester /…

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Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Max Porter adaptation plays it safe

A new stage adaptation of the award-winning novel about a grief-stricken family visited by a giant talking crow takes imaginative flight but never truly soars

The Guardian - AU

Grief is the Thing With Feathers: why Max Porter’s strange but ‘magnificent’ debut keeps inspiring adaptations

With a new Australian stage version and a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch later this year, the author’s boundary-pushing novella continues to soar

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The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz review – jazz age mystery packed with corpses and charisma

The actor’s first novel, set on (and sometimes narrated by) a luxury boat in 1925, swerves from cosy Christie homage into something far more brutal

The Guardian - AU

‘Literary scandal’, ‘joke-a-minute’, ‘captivating’: the best Australian books out in May

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU

These three actors played Hamlet. Now they’re playing actors in Hamlet rehab

Brendan Cowell, Ewen Leslie and Toby Schmitz insist they’re not playing themselves in Hamlet Camp – where actors go to recover not from drugs or sex, but Shakespeare

The Guardian - AU

Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

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As Gaslight illuminates the stage, no one escapes unscathed

The play that coined the modern usage of 'gaslight' is on at Civic Theatre.

Newcastle Herald

Gaslight review – Toby Schmitz and Geraldine Hakewill star in cinematic story of abuse

The themes of Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play remain as relevant as ever – but while this adaptation has plenty to admire, it suffers from a lack of subtlety

The Guardian - AU

The Seagull review – Sigrid Thornton and Toby Schmitz star in contemporary take on Chekhov

Andrew Upton’s adaptation transplants the play’s ensemble to Australia in the early 2000s, where they discover the cost of art and thwarted dreams

The Guardian - AU

Tim Minchin talks comedy, the dangerous allure of fame and taking control of his career

After his dazzling career comes unstuck, the musician, actor and provocateur reassesses his comedy, questions the dangerous allure of fame, and finds home is where the heart is.

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