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A Table, a Fruit Bowl and One Shrivelled Apple,
single work
review
— Review of Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1961 single work novel ;'MARK McSHANE’s 1961 thriller Séance on a Wet Afternoon has been adapted four times since its initial publication. The first, Bryan Forbes’s 1964 film of the same title, remains the best known – better known, in fact, than the novel. Though not especially successful when it was released, it has grown considerably in reputation. Richard Attenborough, who co-produced the film with Forbes as well as acting in it, later identified the role as his best performance. In 2002, after a long gap, the Japanese horror film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa made a telemovie that took further liberties with the plot but remained, as did the earlier film, more or less faithful to the essentials. There has been an adaptation for radio – first broadcast on BBC Radio4 in 2010, with the excellent Anton Lesser as narrator – and, most adventurously of all, an opera. The opera, by Stephen Schwartz, who is best known as the lyricist and composer of the musical Wicked, had its premiere in Santa Barbara in 2009, and was performed in New York in 2011.'(Introduction)
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Between One Geography and Another,
single work
review
— Review of Satellite Boy 2012 single work film/TV ; The Great Gatsby 2013 single work film/TV ; -
Forgotten War,
extract
criticism
'The looming centenary of the landing at Gallipoli is a reminder of unfinished business between settler and Indigenous Australia after a decade of incomplete reconciliation'
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Gay Rights and the Glass Ceiling,
extract
autobiography
'How much has changed over the past four decades, asks Dennis Altman in this extract from his new book, The End of the Homosexual?'