Playhouse, August 21 John Bell leaves the company he founded on a high. Here was a Tempest in which he restored the play’s often-lost lightness, and rediscovered the comedy that exists outside of the marauding drunkenness of Stephano and Trinculo. Refreshingly for one of Shakespeare’s most imposed-upon works Bell has…
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Sydney Lyric, August 20 We all know the best children’s books engage parents as well, and Roald Dahl was the master of this. The miracle of Matilda the Musical is not that it offers burp jokes and mock horror to transfix the young and shrewder entertainment for adults, but that…
Foundry 616, August 19 Expert improvising musicians can instantly strike a rapport and create good and sometimes great music without having ever previously worked together or even met. This was the case with pianist Greg Lloyd, an ex-Sydneysider long resident in Ireland, who was playing with the established local rhythm…