Belvoir Downstairs, August 21 Director Adena Jacobs calls this “a meditation upon the myth of Oedipus Rex”. Not the Sophocles play of that name, you’ll note, but the myth that supplied Sophocles’ raw material. In a way she strips Oedipus of the trappings of his play, and re-mythologises him as…
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Haveli (Yum Yum Tree) What hits you first is the sound quality: play this loud and your neighbours will think a band is rehearsing in your living-room. This enchanting album was recorded in the Piramal Haveli, an exotic (and resonant!) century-old building in remote Bagar, India. There saxophonist Matt Keegan…
Sandra Bates will step down as Ensemble Theatre’s artistic director at the end of 2015, having clocked up 30 years in the job. Her successor, the current co-artistic director Mark Kilmurry, will be only the third incumbent since Hayes Gordon founded the company 1958. Bates is primarily quitting because she…