THE WAY IN IS THE WAY OUT (Sarang Bang) 8/10 Murray McNabb was one of the few who stayed. While great swathes of New Zealand’s finest musicians flew the coop to enrich Australia’s scene immeasurably, McNabb kept the home fires burning – and that’s not just a figure of speech.…
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Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, October 8 9.5/10 This is the best Antigone I have seen, and no one who loves theatre should miss it. Sport For Jove’s Damien Ryan may have freely adapted the text, but in so doing he has arrived at a play that is frighteningly true…
CLIMB (Vegetable/Planet) 8/10 Hot on the heels of his unsettling Fluid to the Influence comes a very different opus from the Necks’ keyboard hypnotist, Chris Abrahams. But then change, surprise and contrast are in his DNA. In the course of an almost 40-year career Abrahams has played with an extraordinary…