Rejigged Fables Reel 'em In

Six Aesop's fables are imaginatively retold for children, writes Michael Dwyer.

Human Nature Under The Spotlight

KIAMA artist Michael Beare is looking at people's characteristics and global influences in his exhibition Foibles and Fables.

You're In Gluck

CECILIA BARTOLI Dreams and Fables (Composed by Gluck) (Decca) Pared back dramatics meet varied vocals.

A Little Leisure At Merewether

SOME Merewether Public School parents are in the leisure industry, such as holidays and cafe/restaurants. Gionottis, a cafe on Beaumont St, Hamilton, is owned by the Fables. They have been in the industry for three years. They offer excellent coffee and delicious meals with an Italian inf

It's Terrific, But At Times Kosky Loses His Head

WOZZECK Opera Australia, Opera House, October 11 Opera as a genre began with fables of gods, kings, princesses and heroes. It was left to Alban Berg's Wozzeck in 1925 to introduce as its central figure not simply another upwardly mobile and dissident member of the European servant class (as

Naming Names Name Of Game

Another snippet from Max Hitchens book Fact, Fiction and Fables of The Melbourne Cup. Race broadcast legend Johnny Tapp has a fascination for cleverly named horses, and some real thinkers have named Melbourne Cup winners. Try these: Archer (1861-62) was by William Tell; Lantern (1864) had Nigh

Gig And Shows

Music ACE OF CLUBS Tomorrow, Jim Overend. Saturday, King Karaoke. ACOUSTIC CAFE AT THE STAR Tonight, Cruel Sea Recovery Party featuring The Fables. Tomorrow, Hysterical Musicians plus soloists. Saturday, Celtika, Ghost Road, Paul Woseen plus Paul Flaherty. Sunday, Funky Do Das. ADAMSTOWN ROSE

Subdued Reactions

Fables from the alchemist's enclave produce just a little gold Blinded By The Sun Playhouse, Sydney Opera House STEPHEN Poliakoff sets his play in the chemistry school of a minor English university. But he pushes his story right to the boundaries of probability. Surprising things happen in

Shane's The Fairytale King

SITTING high in the stand at the Sydney Entertainment Centre last night was Aesop. You know Aesop, the one associated with fables and fairytales. And, right on the buzzer, he delivered. With just five seconds on the clock and the Sydney Kings trailing by a point against North Melbourne, the ba

Ah, What Memories

FABLES Seven, 8.30pm THIS is not an ABC drama - not Aunty's bowl of gruel at all. But memories of great times with Phoenix and Janus come flooding back when Bill Hughes's name appears in the production credits for this sparkler for the Seven Network. With him is Simon Westaway, enjoying his be

Treasury Giveaway

THE Newcastle Herald and Random House have two sets of The Random House Children's Treasury books to give away. This beautifully illustrated anthology has nursery rhymes, fairy tales from around the world, Aesop's fables and nonsense verse, and retails for $39.95. For your chance to win one of

Tress And Treasures

A lock of Mary Shelley's hair, William Bligh's diary entry on the day of the mutiny - the State Library's Possessed exhibition is both a personal and a scientific collection of more than 160 historical treasures. "People have this idea that his-tory is about fables and myths and not about r

Mcg Test To Usher In New Order

Two cricket fables are going up the chimney with Santa Claus as the third Test begins at the MCG today. One is that the West Indies are still a cricket superpower. The other is that a place in the Australian team is a sinecure. Victory to this latest version of Australia - likely to be different

Off With The Faeries

TALES OF A FAERIE CALLED ANGEL Written & Directed by Harry Cripps Wharf 2 LIGHT farce is the order of the day in Harry Cripps' new play, so light it verges on weightlessness. Told as a series of Chaucer-esque fables - the Couturier's Tale, the Terrorist's Tale, the Vampire's Tale, etc -

Saddle Up And Download A Win

THE Net loves an event, a reason to dress up, and Melbourne Cup Day will be no exception. It may be hat-optional as you sit at your screen, but there are plenty of ways to partake in the Spring racing festivities from the comfort of your chair. Max Hitchins, author of Fact, Fiction And Fables Of

`fables' Of Naive Figures

JENNY WATSON's work has been called insipid, conservative and comically ill-done by Australian art critics. She has been both savaged and celebrated: she was the first woman to represent Australia with a solo show at the Venice Biennale (1993), winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award (1990) and ha

Bound For The Screen?

Jane Austen and William Shakespeare have been sliced, diced and julienned by Hollywood. But where to now? Metro leaps once more into the breach with some books we'd love to see Tinsel Town turn into blockbusters. Aesop's Fables. Directed by Robert Altman and starring everyone in Hollywood. The m

Crunch Time In The Big Apple

New York City, with all its fables and foibles, can be an overwhelming experience, especially for a first-time visitor. Just ask Geoff Harrison. I KNEW the trip to New York was going to be exciting when I was called by British Airways in London. I was due to fly to New York from Heathrow that mor

The Eternal Paradox Of Faith

THE older I get, the easier it is to understand the meaning of myths and to accept to live with mysteries. Myths and mysteries co-exist in human life but they are not the same. Myths are stories, legends, fables, handed down through the centuries. They express, though they do not explain, what th

Imagination At Play In A Shadowy World

MILLENNIAL FABLES, By Peter Porter, Oxford University Press, $17.95. A LONG time ago, Peter Porter wrote of reading A Midsummer Night's Dream at school. His latest book has the epigraph from that play, ``The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them