John Shand | Music & Other Spheres Posts

February 18, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

PASSION WORLD (Concord) 7/10 Fred and Ginger, tomato and basil, gin and tonic: some pairings are such a natural fit as to seem inseparable. Singer Kurt Elling and pianist Laurence Hobgood were such a match for 20 years, but now the party is apparently over (excepting Hobgood’s presence as an…

February 14, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Roslyn Packer Theatre, February 5 9/10 Endless storytelling possibilities were open to playwright Andrew Bovell and director Neil Armfield in adapting Kate Grenville’s novel for the stage. By opting for a profound sense of ritual, intermingled with stylised theatricality and laced with enchantment, they arrived at a deeper, more poetic…

February 13, 2016 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Drama Theatre, February 12 8.5/10 Let the rain fall on your windscreen with the wipers off and watch randomness with which some droplets merge into a trickle that commandeers other droplets and hurtles ever faster to its doom. What if that process were not random? What if there were a…