John Shand Posts

November 6, 2013 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, October 30 Swirling mists, gentle mizzle, stark landscapes, human conviviality and human heartbreak: they are all present in Clannad’s music at its best. Then much of the appeal lies in the lightness with which Moya Brennan’s voice dances across the melodies, like a young girl’s feet barely seeming…

October 17, 2013 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Belvoir Street, October 16 Accepted scholarship has it that about a decade before he wrote Hamlet Shakespeare had written another play of that name, now lost. This, predating his known plays, was a crude revenge tragedy that supposedly influenced Thomas Kyd’s hideous The Spanish Tragedy. The plot of Hamlet (borrowed…

October 17, 2013 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Slide, October 10 A girl from Brisbane follows her dream to all the way to Paris, and becomes a principal dancer at firstly the Moulin Rouge and then the Lido. The dream lasts for 13 years. Shay Stafford’s story is too good not to tell, and there’s a show here,…