Despite Sylvia never setting a cloven hoof on stage, she dominates the other characters in Edward Albee’s bizarre and hilarious 2000 play, The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?. Sylvia is not just a goat, she’s one so sweetly alluring that the happily married Martin Gray can’t help falling in love…
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This was more like it: as well as smaller, quirkier shows, Sydney Festival was back to the extravaganzas only it could host. Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon, created by Barcelona’s Layers of Reality, was a cutting-edge audiovisual exploration of this revolutionary Mexican artist. Virtual-reality headsets let you plumb…
It’s been a year since Dreams of Falling, perhaps the only violin/harp/drums trio on the planet, last played in the Mountains. Now Rebecca Daniel (1741 violin, vocals), Martyn Cook (electric Irish harp) and the Walkley Award-winning John Shand (words, percussion) are back, with plenty of new material as well as…