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…
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Wharf 1 Theatre, July 19 9/10 Our lives are many-stranded, Martyna Majok’s play seems to tell us: so many lengths of rope, with infinite subtleties in our interdependence. Individual strands can snap or fray so easily when stressed, the wonder is that any of our relationships ever pass the test…