Ensemble Theatre, January 24 Reviewed by John Shand 7.5/10 David Williamson has said that he is now more psychologist than playwright. If such didactic preoccupations have sometimes clouded the dramaturgy of his recent work, in Odd Man Out Williamson the psychologist and Williamson the playwright have come up with an…
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WAY OUT WEST (Jazzhead) 8/10 Peter Knight has shaken up the personnel and instrumentation – and therefore the music – of his Way Out West project, while managing to retain its essential dialogue between East and West. Where happy grooves once predominated, here the opening Nine Years Later begins as…
City Recital Hall, January 21 8/10 As we enter the new world order of trashing truth and reviling cultures perceived as alien, it was like sliding into a parallel universe to relish the nuanced and ancient musical world of Azerbaijan presented by Alim Qasimov’s sextet. Here was truth intertwined with…