Concert Hall, January 17 7.5/10 The 1967 referendum was merely a start, but it remains loaded with symbolism. Now, as its fiftieth anniversary approaches and the mood for further change – even a treaty – is in the air, this performance exuded a healthy optimism as it celebrated in song…
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St Stephen’s Uniting Church, January 15 Reviewed by John Shand 6/10 St Stephen’s Church exemplifies Inter-War Gothic architecture, and the push-you-back-in-your-seat reaction to Hayley Fohr’s songs was that they, too, were darkly, ornately Gothic. Indeed if Trump starts a war the new material that she concentrated on here may even…
Leura Everglades Gardens, January 22 7/10 Imagine two Donald Trumps cohabiting in the White House, and you have a snapshot of one aspect of the kaleidoscopic relationship between Antony and Cleopatra. Of course Trump is a vulgar, hollow caricature of himself compared with Shakespeare’s great protagonists, but they share some…