Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Maeve Marsden is a writer, performer, producer and theatremaker. She directs national storytelling project Queerstories, curates Queer Thinking for Sydney Mardi Gras, tours internationally with critically acclaimed cabaret productions, and in 2020, will be a member of Belvoir Theatre’s Philip Parsons Writers Lab for Early-Career Playwrights. She has been published by the Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian Australia, Junkee, ABC, SBS, ArtsHub, Daily Review, Archer Magazine and Audrey Journal. She tweets from @maevemarsden.
