John Shand Posts

August 2, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Lennox Theatre, July 27 4/10 Ostensibly it’s Tahmoor – one of many close-to-Sydney towns through which the Hume Highway once crawled, before the expressway scorched across the landscape – that’s the prison for Karim and Beth. But really it’s family. Some iron combination of guilt, love and habit have been…

August 1, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, July 24 7/10 This was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s apprenticeship. He wrote the first draft of In the Heights at 19, nine years before it revolutionised musical theatre on Broadway in 2008. While rap had been used in musicals before, Miranda suddenly made it the most succinct…

July 28, 2024 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, July 19 9/10 Our lives are many-stranded, Martyna Majok’s play seems to tell us: so many lengths of rope, with infinite subtleties in our interdependence. Individual strands can snap or fray so easily when stressed, the wonder is that any of our relationships ever pass the test…