Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason remembers his first visit to Sydney for all the wrong reasons. This was when the band performed at Randwick Racecourse on a bitter winter’s day in 1971. “It was probably the coldest gig I’ve ever played,” Mason recalls on the phone from one of his…
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Tennessee Williams was 33 before he had a hit play, whereupon he unleashed a deluge of them, including several at the very pinnacle of open-heart surgery and psychological insight. It’s easy enough to say such plays are timeless by definition, but with two, 1957’s Suddenly Last Summer and 1947’s A…
How do you possibly turn a silent film into a musical? That was the question puzzling composer Zara Stanton when writer/director Julia Robertson approached her about collaborating on an adaptation of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece, Metropolis. But Stanton describes Robertson as “one of those people who I would follow into battle.…