John Shand Posts

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…

September 13, 2014 / Features - Archive

The trombone player of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Moises Nogueras, is still considered a new boy. He’s been a member for 23 years. Singer Charlie Aponte has now clocked up 41 years – nearly two-thirds of his life – in the Gran Combo. Yet he, too, was once…

September 11, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive