An actor with Melbourne Shakespeare Company, Tony Reck has written, directed, produced and critiqued theatre in Melbourne for twenty-five years. In Sydney, he has reviewed contemporary performance for Sydney arts magazine Real Time and written, directed, and produced his own work. His plays include The Great Divide, The Tar Machine, The Antechamber, Dirty Pictures, and a fifth play, Broken River (2019). Tony also writes fiction and seeks inspiration in landscapes — as images that might reveal elaborate meaning behind appearances. He has completed two novels: True Crime and Of the Road, and is planning a third. His forthcoming, sixth play is titled Blue Carla.
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Eulogy for an Unfinished Cat Dressed as a cat I traipse through the streets and lanes of yesteryear, a mystery of mind so despised, so unperceived, that this territory marked by squirts of indifference (over many years) has never been gained at all. A quiet squat in the crepuscular light. Who am I but an…
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Tony Reck’s Long Death Last Breath is a work of intense psychological fiction, written in a fevered, stream-of-consciousness style. It traces a man’s descent into obsession, self-harm, and moral disintegration, interwoven with moments of tenderness, delusion, and deferred violence. In support of its themes, the language itself destabilises: syntax stretches, referents blur. Some readers may…
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It was November 2024, the Melbourne Cup weekend, and we had four days to complete the Razor Viking circuit. After spending Friday night at Muttonwood camp, twenty kilometres north of Licola, we drove over Mt Tamboritha, along the Snowy Range, and arrived at Howitt car park. Having just met the party of nine, I kept…
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Driving through the streets of Fitzroy at night you become obsessed with streetlight and the sound of an imagined disturbance occurring in flat thirteen on the twenty-fifth floor of the Brunswick St. commission flats. In daylight, there is little to see but a urine stain on a tram shelter seat. An old stiff with a…
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After an entire day spent walking to the location of this photograph so as to plan the shot, overnight, a ferocious sandstorm obliterated the dune & drastically altered the landscape. Befuddled, I returned. What you see is the result.
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