Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, February 26 8/10 At the risk of revealing I’m over 21, I saw Gordon Chater’s unforgettable 1976 performance as Robert O’Brien in this one-actor play’s premiere season, in those heady days that confirmed Australian plays, acting and production could be world-class. It toured Australia, had acclaimed West…
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Chatswood Concourse Concert Hall, February 25 8.5/10 Martin Hayes excels at enunciating the exquisite sadness of being. Like the trumpet playing of Miles Davis or the singing of Billy Holiday and Jose Carreras, it’s ever present in the great Irish violinist’s sound and phrasing. Beyond the airs and laments in…
A young Simon Burke saw the poster for Nimrod Theatre Company’s The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, showing a young boy smoking a cigarette, and wondered why he hadn’t been cast in the role. After all, he’d recently done Nimrod’s Kookaburra with The Elocution’s director, Richard Wherrett, and had since been…