Annandale Creative Arts Centre, December 7 7/10 Rituals offer connectivity not only to those who participate, but to those who observe. Their familiarity is reassuring, and the shared experience a bond. Of course they are practised within broader cultural traditions, and these only survive because, while they might be rooted…
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Old 505 Theatre, December 5 4.5/10 At her best playwright Sarah Hamilton suspends time and place, so the two characters float in her play just as the little boat they occupy does in the water. Aided by Kobe Donaldson’s projections of sea and sky and the subliminal shimmer of Max…
GOOD HOPE (Edition/Planet) 9/10 Zakir Hussain has done it again. The tabla master – among the great living musicians – has form in helping make unlikely jazz trios work brilliantly, including 2006’s Sangam with saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Eric Harland. Here his fingerprints are all over an enthralling dialogue…