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How melodrama became the theme running through the 2026 Perth Festival

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral values.

The Conversation · Mar 19

Burns specialist who tried to set fire to colleague’s home is sentenced

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The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2025

Plastic surgeon jailed for trying to kill colleague during Covid lockdown

Burns specialist Peter Brooks cycled in camouflage through snow during Covid lockdown to stab Graeme Perks and douse his home in petrol, court told

The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2025

Judge criticises surgeon Peter Brooks’ ‘cynical’ trial-delaying tactics

A total of nine trial dates were set before Dr Peter Brooks was eventually convicted of attempting to murder Graeme Perks.

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2025

Plastic surgeon guilty of attempting to murder fellow doctor he ‘hated’

Peter Brooks, 61, was convicted of attempting to kill a fellow plastic surgeon who gave evidence in his disciplinary proceedings.

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025

Plastic surgeon Peter Brooks found guilty of trying to kill colleague during Covid lockdown

Peter Brooks was ‘voluntarily absent’ from his month-long trial because he was on hunger strike

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025

Doctor ‘stabbed by fellow surgeon’ felt intestines bulging out, trial told

Graeme Perks told a court he has no recollection of seeing a crowbar before he was knifed in the abdomen by an intruder outside his home.

Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2025

Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98

Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2025

Millwall FC fans handed football ban after mocking deadly Leicester City helicopter crash

The father and son made gestures alluding to a 2018 helicopter crash that killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others

Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2024

Woolworths’ free naturopath consultations raise concerns among peak health bodies

Exclusive: experts fear the cost-of-living crisis is forcing people to forgo evidence-based healthcare

The Guardian - AU · Aug 27, 2023