John Shand Posts

January 10, 2025 / Theatre Reviews

Roslyn Packer Theatre, January 4 7.5/10 This, I promise you, is like nothing you have seen. An ancient Greek tragedy is fused with an ongoing global calamity in Brazil to create Antigone in the Amazon. Mythology and reality, it tells us, are one and the same. The civil war that…

January 9, 2025 / Album Reviews - Archive

Tapestry 8.5/10 Whether it is fans banging heads on a Metallica stage or tears streaming down faces at a Shostakovich concert, no other art form shakes us up like music. It alone can cast a spell that takes control of your central nervous system. In the case of Vazesh, that…

January 8, 2025 / Features - Archive

  During the covid lockdowns, when cellist Rachel Scott was allowed only one visitor at a time, she streamed monthly duets she made with other instrumentalists. Seeking to maximise the variation between performances, she decided to incorporate spoken word, and approached actor Damien Ryan, artistic director of Sport for Jove…