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MISS SEPTEMBER: 2007 Courier Mail's Views of Queensland Calender
COVER GIRL: 2006 scene magazine
2009 June 18 REVIEW Theatre Homoneurotic Cabaret The Judith Wright SAME SAME
"Evelyn Hartogh performed a comic exposé of her politically confused and disenfranchised South African family roots. Besides an overemphasis on her family’s significant obsession with ‘farting’ (you try spelling fighting in a South African accent) it celebrated the joy of survival and family issues. "
2006 2 August DAN EVANS Theatre Fringe Round-Up ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #652 p.38
“This one-woman-show delivered by Evelyn Hartogh gets severely lost in the translation and descends into a preachy soapbox piece that accuses the audience of being racist, sexist, homophobic bigots. In a nutshell: A great idea that needs to return to the drawing board”
2006 3 July DAN EVANS Box Office Critics Pick ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #648 p.27.
"Dan Evans picks ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ Wonder Woman … Barbie … Lillith … all in one performance? All facing a postmodernist existential crisis? Hell yeah! Why not? In an age of comic book movie remakes, it’s about time some of these characters migrated to the boards. Writer/performer Evelyn Hartogh gives us an altered perspective on some famous pop culture [sis] icons that promises to be both comical and off-the-wall”
1999 July ANONYMOUS Art Love Jam: A Review SEMPER p36.
“Title: Art Love Jam. Director: Evelyn Hartogh. Dare Held: Friday July 9. Evening featuring performance art and the like can be similar to the little girl with the curl: ie when they are good, they're very, very good, but when they are bad they're f**king horrid. And this unfortunately, was the latter. Allegededly based on "love as the common denominator", the event was a self-styled collection of bards, fools, nightingales" etc, according to the program, but after wasting half a Friday evening at the Zoo, trying vainly to find some merit in the event, I decided that self gratification was the uniting factor and retitled the night as Art Love Wank. Now i have got nothign against the avante-garde [sic] nothing against groupds of people united by tehier sexualities expressing themselves in unique ways, nothing against challeneging notions of fixed geners through artisitic mediums. What I do dislike though is self-serving egotistical artistes who are too busy shoving their noses up their own asses to notice the reeking stink of talentless crap. The poetry was dreadful, the singing even worse, and whoever it was who massacred Patti Smith's classic "Because the Night" should know that I have talked to my freinds in the mafia and they know what's up! Jesus Christ with an H and a ahlf. Admittedly the acrobats were interesting, as were the rollerskaters with fireworks, but maybe that was because they didn’t open their mouths. I don't know, In a month of excellent Pride events, clebrating the diversity of sexualities in Queensalnd, this was unfortuantly a disgrace. To paraphrase a cliche: I know what I like about art, and I didn't like this!"
1999 July NATHAN BROOKS All F***ked Up and Full of S**t SEMPER p.3.
"Dear Semper, RE: Evelyn Hartogh's Barbie and Wonderwoman article. Evelyn you are all f***ked up and full of s**t . Maybe I’m coming down with a bug but I felt physically sick reading your pseudo-intellectual, half-assed, femanazi bullshit. Stop your insecent whining about humanity realising the differences between males and females. While the rest of society gets on with life you’re left screaming at yourself about extremist doctrines of a radical and permanently obsoltet, ideology. God help you, cos you’ll explode with your own anger and hatred before any intelligent lifeform takes you seriously. So GET OVER IT!!!! then we can all be happy ”
1999 June 24 MICK WATSON Film Festival Short on Value BROTHER SISTER p.3.
“No positive role model seen instead … heterosexual stereotypes/sex romps, poor visual clarity, distorting sound and even a main character easting a vomit sandwich. Certainly an interesting combination but not what I expected”
1995 Feb ANONYMOUS Review of Typecast SEMPER
"Evelyn Hartough [sic] stole the show with the women of the Toilet Doilies walking on stilts as she spoke. The fires at the bottom of one of the women’s stilts set off the fire alarm, and the crowd of two hundred hot sweating art enthusiasts had to evacuate the premises ”
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1992-2009 scripts, photos, articles, & the public and private controversy.
Evelyn Hartogh, Brisbane's most controversial artist tells all.
Collecting her scripts published in the 1995, 1996, 1997 & 1999 limited handmade editions of SOLDOUT , sold at performances and independent bookstores.
Expanding the Post Scripts into Memoirs of almost 20 years in the controversial Brisbane queer alternative arts scene.
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