Bella Vista Farm, December 17 7/10 Last year it was 30 degrees at Bella Vista for Sport for Jove’s As You Like It, with fruit bats winging the minor roles. This year, the 14th edition of the beacon Shakespeare company’s summer season, it was 12, minus windchill – and that…
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107 Redfern, December 11 6/10 Fame has become as debased a currency as the Venezuelan bolivar. Those seeking celebrity can belch inanities on social media and achieve it with zero accomplishments. Whereas Dorothy Levitt, a British pioneer in the earliest (1903-1909) days of motor racing, power-boat racing and flying (routinely…
Kings Cross Theatre, December 7 7/10 There’s no grudge like a childhood grudge. For the young, injustice is uniquely their cross to bear, rather than being all but universal. When a history teacher caned the 16-year-old me after wrongly accusing me of smoking, I’d lie awake at night in tear-stained…