Belvoir St Theatre, September 10 8/10 I dreamt I attended the theatre on a torrentially rainy night, and saw a play based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, her fantastical character who effortlessly swaps and blurs gender, while living from 1588 until modernity. But rather than attempting to replicate Orlando, the play…
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KXT on Broadway, September 4 5/10 What enticing premises for a play: punk-rock, intergenerational conflict and internet-spawned copyright conundrums. Add an actor of Zoe Carides’ credentials, live music and exchanges between in-person and on-screen performers, and The Bridge was packed with potential. The great ideas, alas, translated into a modest…
Lennox Theatre, August 31 9/10 On a day when mobs demonstrated against immigration, particularly the non-white variety, Hamed Sadeghi offered the perfect riposte. Not that this was his intention: he merely works towards refining his gentle art. But for a decade he’s enriched Australian music, bringing Iran’s ancient culture to…