John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

November 24, 2023 / Album Reviews - Archive

Zashto? Mara! Music 9/10 Australians have long had a love/hate attitude to migrants. While we enjoy the cornucopia of foods, racism is a rash festering just below the skin, waiting to be inflamed by the dog-whistlers. Zashto? – “why?” in Bulgarian – is a song cycle that asks why the…

November 23, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

  Belvoir St Theatre, November 15 9.5/10 Were adaptor/director Eamon Flack to fall under a tram tomorrow – as happens to poor Berlioz in the play – he can go knowing he’s made something to live in the annals of theatre. Cross my heart and hope to die, I promise…

November 21, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

York Theatre, November 10 7/10 I wonder if pollies are afflicted with deprivation syndrome when they’re ignored by The Wharf Revue. Does Pauline Hanson hear she was surplus to requirements this year, and need a beer, a Bex and a good lie down? Did Tony Burke – again braving the…