Idea: Loss
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It is often said that a violent man “lost control”. Girls & Boys asks a far more frightening question: what if the violence was not an absence of control, but its most absolute expression? Dennis Kelly’s play begins like a romantic comedy. A woman tells us about meeting her future husband during an argument at…
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Can a cup of coffee and a dead canary really sustain an opera? Apparently, they can sustain three. Pinchgut Opera’s Coffee and a Dead Canary is a caffeine hit of Baroque music, glamour and glorious theatrical nonsense. Director Eugene Lynch pours three miniature cantatas and one flute concerto into a full-bodied blend that is extremely…
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The Lark review: A life of endings, but not ended Does wanting more from life mean the life you lived wasn’t enough? At 75, Rose stands inside The Lark—the country pub in which she was raised, worked and grew old—as she prepares to leave it for the final time. The building is about to be…
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Power isn’t just about having more than everyone else. Sometimes it’s about having the freedom to step into other people’s worlds without ever having to live with what you leave behind. That’s the tragedy at the heart of Rigoletto. Opera Australia’s production makes this idea tangible through a stunning revolving set. Each turn reveals another…
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Does loving someone give you the right to ask them to remember? In Sophie Davis’s Forget Me, Please, Andi and Sasha meet after concussions and build a life together. But as Andi’s mental health deteriorates, the memories holding their relationship together begin to mean radically different things. For Andi, memory preserves pain. For Sasha, the…
