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…
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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;…
SBW Stables Theatre, September 11 The radio news on the way to the theatre, crammed with domestic violence and familial murders, was like a background briefing for the play. Anna Barnes’ fresh take on the story of Electra (familiarity with which is recommended) seeks to have bells of resonance clanging…