Time Is Moved (ABC/Ten Part Invention) 8/10 Somone’s been tinkering under the bonnet of the band I once called the Rolls Royce of Australian jazz. With a few spark plugs changed, it’s purring again – and roaring when the accelerator’s depressed. In the 20 years since Sydney’s 10-piece Ten Part…
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Roslyn Packer Theatre, July 4 8.5/10 We all suffer from doubt. Even the politicians. They’ve just perfected hiding theirs behind a veneer of certainty. John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 Doubt makes most plays seem absurdly one-dimensional. It was true of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2006 staging, of Shanley’s 2008 film…
Hayes Theatre, June 24, 8/10 Finally! Theatre that embraces the bizarre! It makes you realise how just mundane so much art of all stripes really is; how it sets about fulfilling expectations, rather than subverting them. House of Rot is Uber-theatrical, as it dances between Dada, theatre of the absurd…