Roslyn Packer Theatre, November 28 It’s all there in Lear: ultimate acts of cruelty and kindness; pinnacles of despair and triumphalism; arrogantly wielded power and a descent into beggarly madness. Masterly constructed, it is not a play of plot and sub-plots, but of tightly interwoven narratives, so that although…
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Camelot, November 14 The last time I had this much fun at a gig predates my active memory. Monsieur Camembert helped kick-start the local Gypsy music craze in 1999, and is now the idiom’s benchmark. The personnel has evolved to the point where it is impossible to imagine a more…
Switzerland 1974 (Cuneiform) Time telescoped in the late-’60s/early-’70s. Year by year artists ranging from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa to David Bowie reinvented themselves, and Soft Machine was no different. Virtually no consecutive Softs albums ever had identical personnel, and with new members came new material. By 1974, when this…