Roslyn Packer Theatre, August 23 8/10 Having penned her acclaimed play Switzerland about novelist Patricia Highsmith, Joanna Murray-Smith has now waved her wand across Highsmith’s most famous book, and made it a cracking play. An expert at fizzing dialogue and character exploration, here Murray-Smith has to sustain Highsmith’s premium on…
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Paddo RSL, August 15 8.5/10 August 15 marked not only the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, but also four years since the fall of Kabul. Fred Smith saw the potential in tying these two events together, and strengthening the knot with songs and stories from other…
As a teen, pianist Judy Bailey usually heard classical or pop music coming from the cream-coloured Bakelite radio that hunched on the Formica kitchen bench of her family’s home in Whangarei, New Zealand. But on this particular afternoon, her 13-year-old ears heard something new. She recognised the song, East…