York Theatre, September 5 6.5/10 In other countries they’d be lobbing Molotov cocktails, flipping cars and looting shops. But in Australia a beloved comedian gate-crashed history and lowered the collective blood-pressure on the day when we entered unchartered constitutional waters. Even as deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was assuring us…
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Blue Mountains Theatre, August 25 7/10 We’re slow learners. For decades our worst bushfires have been declared “unprecedented”, the unmistakable trend being that they’re worsening. Hence the title of Campion Decent’s new play (following his related 2008 work Embers). Since 1939, he tells us, there have been 57 official fire-related…