New Theatre, September 15 Depicting genius is hard. Credibly depicting Shakespeare, our greatest writer and finest observer of humanity, is even tougher, as Tom Stoppard proved with his lame attempt in Shakespeare in Love. The idea of making Will a TV talk show guest (alongside Francis Bacon), quizzing him about…
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ATYP Studio 1, September 12 Following this performance Yve Blake graciously acknowledged the Australian Theatre for Young People’s role in kick-starting her career and in teaching her that theatre can be made out of anything. Well, almost. We now know that it cannot be made out of posts on a…
The Half-Finished Heaven (ECM) I have always loved music that ensnares the listener in a spell. These days, alas, the prevailing aesthetic, almost regardless of idiom, is to pummel audiences into submission. I have not heard Sinikka Langeland live, but her albums present sounds finely engraved upon the surrounding silence;…