John Shand Posts

March 24, 2025 / Album Reviews

Avicennia 7.5/10 Carl Dewhurst is among the great chameleons of Australian music. Were each of the manifold projects in which he’s been involved across the last 30 years to be played in adjacent rooms off a long corridor, every time you opened a new door you’d swear you heard a…

March 15, 2025 / Features

Dreams of Falling have not been idle since performing our Wilde About Oscar show in 2023-24. We’ve dived deeper into a very green pool and come up with Swift to Joyce & Beyond: Irish Genius in Word & Song. Others writers include Wilde, Yeats and Beckett, while the first half…

March 14, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Old Fitz Theatre, March 9 8/10 What curious creatures we theatre-goers are, accepting being emotionally scarred, in this case by a lone actor. And what a fine line it is along which a drama for one actor dances, requiring an inbuilt theatricality so it needs to be seen rather than…