Colin Dray

drayfish (Colin Dray) is a Lecturer in Literature at Campion College of the Liberal Arts, Australia, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His writing and criticism has appeared in Australian Literary Studies, Meanjin, Voiceworks, Antipodes (forthcoming).

Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair But Geoffrey Wright’s ‘Macbeth’ Is Just Foul

Colin Dray

/ 9 May 2019

Shakespeare's plays offer endless potential for adaptation, but sometimes, as is true of Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth (2006), when these reinterpretations fail we get a clearer impression of the original's genius.

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‘Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’ Twists Videogame Tropes

Colin Dray

/ 5 March 2019

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Making Troy Great Again: On Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’ and Trump’s Ugly Political Rhetoric

Colin Dray

/ 15 October 2018

The Trump presidency is Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida made real – only it's stripped of the mythology and just lying bare and ugly for all to see.

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‘Star Wars’: The Forgetful Menace

Colin Dray

/ 12 June 2018

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Is the Revival of ‘Roseanne’ Merely Televisual Grave-Robbing?

Colin Dray

/ 5 April 2018

The return of Roseanne brings with it some complicated political baggage -- and it brings Dan Connor back from the dead.

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Where’s the So-called ‘Feminism’ in Zack Snyder’s Violent ‘Sucker Punch’?

Colin Dray

/ 20 February 2018

Cinema's Russian doll of vacuous misogynist hyper-sexualised spectacle is a swing-and-a-miss.

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In ‘Mass Effect’ While You Stare into the RPG, the RPG Stares Back into You

Colin Dray

/ 9 January 2018

Just as you interrogate your companions and enemies in order to understand them and their worlds, the game reveals itself to have been questioning you. What kind of player are you? What kind of person?

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and ‘The Orville’: To Boldly Go Where We’ve Already Gone

Colin Dray

/ 3 November 2017

Whereas Star Trek: Discovery continues to explore ideological complexities, so far The Orville seems little more than a celebration of Seth MacFarlane's love of the Star Trek property and his ability to indulge in expensive cosplay.

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‘Twin Peaks’ and Its Twisted Reflection

Colin Dray

/ 14 August 2017

The return of Twin Peaks fundamentally reshapes the theme of the entire text, refashioning it into a meditation upon reflection, and the inability to know oneself.

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From the Superhero Universe of Brute Ego, Wonder Woman Arises, Unsullied

Colin Dray

/ 6 June 2017

Seventy-five years ago Wonder Woman arose to show what a stagnating comic book medium could achieve; now she does it again, and in so doing, rescues the DC franchise from itself.