The Berlin, Germany and Washington DC theatre communities are saddened at the passing of director Gabriele Jakobi (1952 – 2023). She succumbed to respiratory distress and other complications resulting from a series of strokes she suffered in 2015. She was an accomplished and respected director, playwright and teacher whose impressive…
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She was as improbable as a hummingbird, a creature that beats its wings 80 times a second, while its tiny heart pounds 1,260 times every minute. They have short lives. The wonder with Mexican Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was not just her revolutionary art, or that she was dead at 47,…
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…