entertainment

Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife is being transformed into an opera with music by George Palmer and starring soprano Nina Korbe.  Source link

Mother at Melbourne’s NGV offers contrasting depictions of motherhood, from Toscani’s Madonna and Child to First Nations weaving.  Source link

Imported to Australia 25 years ago, Big Brother introduced the country to the concept of 24-hour monitoring as entertainment. Source link

What we’re watching, reading and cooking this weekend. Source link

The Iron Maiden documentary is a 50-year history of heavy metal’s flashiest band as told by their biggest fans. Source link

Miranda Priestly has lost her fangs in the reboot as weak plot lines make room for superfluous scenes and characters. Source link

His legendary environmental documentaries have captivated generations, but away from the screen, Sir David Attenborough is “warm, well-informed and delightful company”, too.  Source link

Ellena Savage’s debut essay collection, Blueberries, was a surprise hit. In her new novel, The Ruiners, she takes on Charles Dickens and the illegal waste trade. Source link

Final arguments in the defamation trial between Charlotte MacInnes and Rebel Wilson have heard claims of a suspicious career jump to “terrible, terrible” allegations. Source link

The Melbourne-based artist painted Pitjantjatjara elder Iluwanti Ken, who is known for her large-scale drawings and was also a finalist in this year’s Wynne Prize. Source link