Belvoir St Theatre, July 30 10/10 That grief-knot in your heart – the one that won’t let you sleep – is not necessarily a clot of black, congealed blood. It might be evidence of Crow, and don’t assume he’s malignant. Despite his stabbing, tearing beak, taste for roadkill and breath…
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Riverside Theatre, July 25 8.5/10 This is the one that’s worth watching – while Big Brother watches you. A 2017 version at Roslyn Packer Theatre and the 2014 iteration of this Shake & Stir Theatre Co production both did scant justice to George Orwell’s masterpiece. Now Shake & Stir’s director…
David Williamson’s first memory is of Sydney. At three-and-a-half, the Melbourne born-and-bred playwright was visiting an uncle with his family, and remembers “sitting in a backyard on a very bright, sunny day, surrounded by bougainvilleas and subtropical flowers,” he says via Zoom from Provence, where’s he’s holidaying. “The fact my…