I fell in love with Natalie Clein. Warm, unegotistical yet engaging, she spoke to the audience in the same vein as a simple remark attributed to her in the program, “The music is more important than me.”
Counting and Cracking is a profoundly affecting play, in which the lives of many people are actually or nearly destroyed by political decisions made both in Sri Lanka and in Australia.
After queuing for some time in the unseasonably cold evening air, we were let into St Francis Xavier’s cathedral, where our seats, unallocated, were narrow wooden pews from which our view of the performance area was partially obscured by a pillar. Par for the course for attending a concert in a cathedral, of course.
If ever you have been a school teacher, or a Sunday school teacher, or a parent – or if ever you have been a child, you will love this play!
Some memories are closer to the truth than others, and some are firmly held to protect us from the truth we can’t face.
As a hugely popular 2007 science fiction film, The Man From Earth has quite a hurdle to mount to be as successful on stage.