Leura Everglades Garden January 23 8.5/10 In the food business dessert chefs are a big noise. The aesthetics of the sugar-hit often trump the substance of the main course. In the literary and theatrical worlds Oscar Wilde has been seen as a master of both main courses and sweets, and…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Riverside Theatre, January 8 7.5/10 When Salvador Dali thundered on to the world stage in the 1920s he confronted us with images neither seen nor dreamed of before. The singularity of his grotesques, his placid beauty, his demented sexuality and his classicism set him apart from his surrealist peers. So…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, November 28 It’s all there in Lear: ultimate acts of cruelty and kindness; pinnacles of despair and triumphalism; arrogantly wielded power and a descent into beggarly madness. Masterly constructed, it is not a play of plot and sub-plots, but of tightly interwoven narratives, so that although…