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…
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Sydney Town Hall, January 13 7/10 Our ears are cunningly designed to detect a sound’s source. Perhaps the greatest wonder of Ellen Fullman’s long string instrument (LSI) – so called because of its 25-metres length – is that it fooled the ears. The vibrating strings were too long to have…
Village Stage, January 7 7/10 At last. With the arrival of the Village Stage Sydney Festival is finally featuring Australian bands, the event having ignored local musicians to a scandalous degree for years. It is a free, sit-on-the-lawn affair, but despite being outdoors (with a stiff breeze) the sound was…