John Shand Posts

August 12, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

The Lounge, Chatswood Concourse, August 5 6/10 Macbeth must gnaw at your vitals with ever-increasing ferocity, just as the titular character’s desperation to escape his predicament gnaws at his own. It should be impossible to sit there passively: you should feel the spell ensnaring you; feel the blackness swelling. This…

August 7, 2025 / Concert Reviews

Lennox Theatre, August 3 8/10 These people, who crawl in here with the moral compass of a slug, are precisely why we must build a wall around Austraya. Have you listened to their lyrics? They’re swindlers, womanisers, gangsters and worse, masquerading as musicians, poets and comedians. But Christ, they are…

August 5, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Belvoir St Theatre, July 30 10/10 That grief-knot in your heart – the one that won’t let you sleep – is not necessarily a clot of black, congealed blood. It might be evidence of Crow, and don’t assume he’s malignant. Despite his stabbing, tearing beak, taste for roadkill and breath…