Archive for February 7th, 2010
Performance Arts
“Missing Pieces is a confronting contemporary drama about two married couples presented by DamShel Productions during the 2010 Adelaide Fringe and is also participating in the Youth Engagement Program (YEP). Written and directed by Shelley Wall Missing Pieces exposes the frailties of two relationships and the secrets they share and hide from each other. The play explores sexual identity, society conformity, family responsibility vs. personal freedom, infidelity and addresses the emotionally provocative issues of domestic and sexual violence in Australia. The play premiered at the Tap Gallery, Sydney in October 2009″
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he had asked the United States to clarify its offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel before he would announce any decision to resume the negotiations. ’Yesterday I met with an American delegation and we held an Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian trilateral meeting,’ Abbas said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo”Finance
“The world’s seven most industrialised countries have vowed to cancel remaining debt with earthquake-devastated Haiti. After two days of talks in northern Canada, the G7 will scrap all Haiti’s debt owed to the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. But Haiti’s foreign debt remains around $1 billion, of which 40 per cent is owed to the InterAmerican Development Bank and a further 27 per cent to the World Bank”
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