Category: Features

February 6, 2023 / Features - Archive

A Sydney Festival of dreams and confrontations

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…

January 10, 2023 / Features

Renowned German theatre director Gabriele Jakobi passes away

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…

January 7, 2023 / Features

The confronting candour of Frida Kahlo

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,…