I was once in the Irish town of Kilkenny on a Monday night, almost universally the quietest night of the week for live music. Yet, of the dozen pubs I chanced upon, only two didn’t have people playing, with the music always Irish traditional. The good burghers of Kilkenny obviously…
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1 Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Belvoir St Theatre A mere handful of the thousands of shows I’ve seen have burned themselves permanently into my brain. They include Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roy Dotrice in Brief Lives, Steven Berkoff’s Salome and Neil Armfield’s Cloudstreet. This list seldom…
KXT on Broadway, December 13 6.5/10 There’s no flashback as delightfully disorienting as an unreliable one. Trent Foo uses the device repeatedly in his debut play. The spiral of realities is made all the giddier by Foo’s also playing the protagonist Heepa, so Foo’s character is arguing about the veracity…