State Theatre, August 29 This was balanced on a knife-edge. The show had to draw us into the lives of its characters instantly and make us care. Had it failed a score of rock, pop and soul songs from around 45 years ago would have been interrupted by people we…
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Belvoir Downstairs, August 21 Director Adena Jacobs calls this “a meditation upon the myth of Oedipus Rex”. Not the Sophocles play of that name, you’ll note, but the myth that supplied Sophocles’ raw material. In a way she strips Oedipus of the trappings of his play, and re-mythologises him as…
Eternity Playhouse, August 12 Improvising musicians do it routinely: take a short motif and investigate all its possible convolutions, like looking at a gemstone from all angles. Playwright Nick Payne applies this device to his dazzling writing of Constellations. The one-act two-hander explores the relationship between Marianne (Emma Palmer) and…