Ensemble Theatre, July 31 9.5/10 Until now, an “adaptation” of a classic tended to be a synonym for a bastardization. Usually translated from another language, these classics come to us more in the image of the adaptor than the originator: high art rendered low by inferior intellect and artistry. Yet…
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Lennox Theatre, July 27 4/10 Ostensibly it’s Tahmoor – one of many close-to-Sydney towns through which the Hume Highway once crawled, before the expressway scorched across the landscape – that’s the prison for Karim and Beth. But really it’s family. Some iron combination of guilt, love and habit have been…
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, July 24 7/10 This was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s apprenticeship. He wrote the first draft of In the Heights at 19, nine years before it revolutionised musical theatre on Broadway in 2008. While rap had been used in musicals before, Miranda suddenly made it the most succinct…