Belvoir St Theatre, January 10 8/10 How do you dramatise a book composed of letters? Isaac Drandic and John Harvey had many solutions in adapting Thomas Mayo’s Dear Son, consisting of letters he asked fellow Aboriginal men to write to their sons or fathers, and more solutions were probably added…
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Foundry Theatre, January 8 8/10 This makes one’s brain fizz without resort to champagne. When the wit, elegance, craft, intelligence and passion of Stephen Sondheim’s songs are married to superlative performances, ingenious arrangements and stylish design, I can’t imagine a more charmingly sophisticated night out. The apotheosis comes when Caroline…
1 Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Belvoir St Theatre A mere handful of the thousands of shows I’ve seen have burned themselves permanently into my brain. They include Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roy Dotrice in Brief Lives, Steven Berkoff’s Salome and Neil Armfield’s Cloudstreet. This list seldom…