William Shakespeare
Her parents are two of our most famous actors, but Charlotte’s career wasn’t a given
“I was such a shy child and acting was the last thing I thought I would do,” says the 27-year-old daughter of Judy Davis and Colin Friels.
- by Jane Rocca
Latest
The banned play making a rare return to the Australian stage
Bell Shakespeare will mark 35 years with a performance of a political epic that inspired The Hunger Games.
- by Linda Morris
Just In
Arts
Think of the drinkers: the advice that helped turn Hamlet into an opera
Composer Brett Dean needed some sage advice to adapt Shakespeare’s longest play.
- by Joyce Morgan
I come to bury the Bachelor, but let’s not give up on true TV love entirely
Friends, readers, reality television watchers, lend me your ears. I come to bury the Bachelor, not to praise him.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Perspective
World War II
Secret planning, treacherous training and the clouds of gliders launched against the Nazis
Gippsland-born Frank Bladin became Air Vice-Marshal of the RAAF. Eighty years ago, he played a crucial role in the D-Day airborne landings on Normandy, France.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
Sunday Life
Where do all the bookish kids go if their school doesn’t have a library?
They need a retreat to the quiet world of imagination sometimes, away from the hurly-burly of the playground.
- by Jane Caro
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