Caroline Wake receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Performances in the Roslyn Packer Theatre typically begin when the house lights go down, the stage lights come up, and the audience ...

Closer, a church bell rests inside a gothic tower. A Victorian dome marks the site of an old cattle market. Somewhere down the hill in Marylebone, a kilometre or two away, is the service flat in which ...

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BEWARE OF PITY—Stefan Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Once upon a time a strong young man found a crippled old man lying in the road, who asked him for a ride on his back. Out of pity the young man obliged.

A new Danish film, “The Kiss,” could be said to revolve around romance and a particular osculation, yet its real concerns lean toward the seductive and destructive qualities of pity. Based on “Beware ...