Kings Cross Theatre, June 20 7.5/10 In a note in the program the playwright Justin Fleming asks why various events in Dresden between 80 and 180 years ago might “reach” us in Sydney today. His answer is that “we live at a time when world leaders fuse fiction with fact”.…
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Eternity Playhouse, June 16 4.5/10 The French have a flair for lightness. It aerates their cooking, from choux pastry to souffle, their music from Offenbach to Satie, and even their very language, with all those silent consonants. And of course it is especially prevalent in their humour, from Voltaire to…
RETURNINGS (ECM) 9/10 Self-effacement is a handy trait for an improviser. You would never discern that Jakob Bro was this band’s leader, for instance, simply by listening. The Danish guitarist’s main concern has been creating contexts to maximise his colleagues’ creativity. And what colleagues! From the absolute vanguard of Scandinavian…