Tristan: A Song for the Superior Man is a new play by Chenoeh Miller asking what it means to be a good man, and it finds its answers in the voices of her own cast.
Nov 27, 2017
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Sep 19, 2017
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Richard Gadd
By Ashley Thomson“Funnily enough, after opening up, I felt more empowered as a man than I have ever felt in my life. Facing fear and overcoming it led to a strength I did not know I had.”
Jan 12, 2017
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Mike Esler
By Ashley Thomson“You bring these guys to a certain level of awareness and they go, I never had any idea. You’re damn right you didn’t have an idea. You didn’t need an idea. You’re only here because you can’t see your kids any more.”
Dec 25, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Jacob Boehme
By Ashley ThomsonJacob Boehme is a choreographer, dancer and writer from the Narangga and Kaurna nations of South Australia, whose work dissects the politics of being gay, Blak and HIV positive.
Dec 25, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Ben Triglone
By Ashley Thomson“Someone said when you do good work you meet good people, and that’s the best thing about this job. I lived in my comfort zone for 35 years and I couldn’t advocate leaving it strongly enough.”
Dec 20, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Dimitris Papaioannou
By Ashley Thomson“Even if it is about hopelessness, the fact that we communicate is hopeful. I think there is something in the gesture of creation that is hopeful.”
Dec 18, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Nathan Maynard
By Ashley Thomson“I always say I feel like we’re pitbull dogs, we’re raised to fight. All of us were expected to be able to fight. I don’t have to live up to that expectation or that persona any more.”
Oct 20, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Andrew Levins
By Ashley Thomson“For me at the moment, even though I do a million different jobs, the thing that I want to be is just a great dad. I look no further than my own father for inspiration, for being there.”
Oct 16, 2016
Women who love bad men: An interview with Laura Elizabeth Woollett
By Ashley Thomson“My decision to present these men in the way that I did was a way of emphasising the problem of subjectivity – whether we can ever truly know the ones we love.” The author of The Love of a Bad Man on the familiarity of manipulation and the cold, close places where masculinity and femininity find each other.
Sep 29, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Ankit Chopra
By Ashley ThomsonThe charismatic, reluctant role model that is Ankit Chopra, on parents, careers, social enterprises and appreciating the people who just get on with making the world a better place.
Sep 26, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Gus Johnston
By Ashley ThomsonHomer chats with former hockey goalkeeper Gus Johnston about sport, ostracism, coming out, aggression and Albert Camus.
Sep 20, 2016
#RoleModelReading: An interview with Benjamin Law
By Ashley ThomsonHomer chats (at some length, because he’s very charming and generous) with Benjamin Law about masculinities, vulnerability, visibility and the things he loves.