Lennox Theatre, August 31 9/10 On a day when mobs demonstrated against immigration, particularly the non-white variety, Hamed Sadeghi offered the perfect riposte. Not that this was his intention: he merely works towards refining his gentle art. But for a decade he’s enriched Australian music, bringing Iran’s ancient culture to…
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Old Fitz Theatre, August 24 7/10 Is it a bird? Is it a play? Is it a play about birds? No, Birdsong of Tomorrow is not really a play, however much you squint through your binoculars. But it does spread its wings in a theatre and have theatrical plumage, so…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, August 23 8/10 Having penned her acclaimed play Switzerland about novelist Patricia Highsmith, Joanna Murray-Smith has now waved her wand across Highsmith’s most famous book, and made it a cracking play. An expert at fizzing dialogue and character exploration, here Murray-Smith has to sustain Highsmith’s premium on…