Category: Features

February 8, 2023 / Features - Archive

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…

February 6, 2023 / Features - Archive

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

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…