John Shand Posts

September 20, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, September 14  We all have our secret addictions, whether electric trains, absinth, bondage or Jane Austen. Baroness Bianka’s secret craving is the elixir of life itself: blood. She is, she tells us, a haemophiliac. The poor thing has been this way ever since she was knee-high to a…

September 18, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Campbelltown Arts Centre, September 14  Mujing expresses the idea of two trees that grow in close proximity entwining and merging into one visual entity, while maintaining separate root systems. So several sections of this hour-long improvisation conceived by Simon Barker (drums, percussion) grew out of duets, while the title was…

September 14, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Concourse Theatre, September 9 The second instalment of David Williamson’s Jack Manning Trilogy ups the stakes. Where Face To Face dealt with workplace vendettas and gripes via the hyper-real depiction of community conferencing, the benignly-titled A Conversation seethes around a barbarous rape and murder. Containing the raging emotions this engenders…