Theatre Royal, January 8 7.5/10 Bob Dylan’s songs come lurching out of Conor McPherson’s play obliquely, like the clues to a cryptic crossword. In most musicals you feel the text swelling towards an inevitable gush of song, but not here. The characters sing at McPherson’s whim, the lyrics to the…
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Bella Vista Farm, December 18 7.5/10 Shakespeare didn’t specify fruit bats in his stage directions, and, while director Damien Ryan can do many things, I suspect he draws the line at bat wrangling, so presumably they invited themselves to add a layer of sylvan authenticity to the Forest of Arden.…
Roslyn Packer Theatre, December 8 Until December 22 8/10 Arthur Miller toyed with calling his great play The Inside of His Head, and, where some productions reduce the work’s suppurating theatricality to base naturalism, Paige Rattray’s Sydney Theatre Company version forces us to soil our hands in the contents of…