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December 28, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

1 Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Belvoir St Theatre A mere handful of the thousands of shows I’ve seen have burned themselves permanently into my brain. They include Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roy Dotrice in Brief Lives, Steven Berkoff’s Salome and Neil Armfield’s Cloudstreet. This list seldom…

May 31, 2018 / Album Reviews - Archive

BLUEPRINTS & VIGNETTES (Earshift) 8/10 Music has a way of smoothing its own path. Given the chance, our brains readily accommodate complexity that comes via the ears, so the unfolding of even quite convoluted material can swiftly assume an air of inevitability. Of course relentless complexity may ultimately test powers…

February 25, 2018 / Uncategorized

Lennox Theatre, February 4 9/10   Of late the Necks’ three members have routinely charted three parallel courses in their long improvisations, with points of intersection or convergence being optional. Here they responded to one another harmonically and rhythmically for most of both journeys, and the totality of the interaction…