This is Samantha Dodemaide’s first really big role as Dorothy and she fills it well. Her diction is clear, her singing voice good and she acts with conviction as the young, confused girl who travels into the unknown with her dog.
Adelaide Reviews
Akram’s dance was fiercely energetic exuding passion and energy, his body emitting terror, bewilderment and despair with different styles
Sometimes going to the theatre is far, far more than “a nice night’s entertainment” – it’s a visceral experience – and such was Bernstein on Stage, a truly lovely event.
It was a dramatic start to Freeze. The 70 or so audience members were asked by Dutch visual/performance artist, Nick Steur, in the ABC Grainger Studio’s attractive foyer to be silent throughout, told that we could stand, walk about or, as most did, sit on the floor – and watch.
This is the third of the trilogy and concerns the Polish woman Marie Curie who with her husband discovered radium and polonium and after his death, so much more.
Alice Oswald describes her text as “a translation of the Iliad’s atmosphere, not its story”. I immediately asked myself, does atmosphere need a translation?
Five of Shakespeare’s plays are encompassed in this four and a half hour show – Henry V, the three parts of Henry VI and Richard III all based on documents of the time and Shakespeare’s remarkable imagination and dramatisation.
It was the beginning of the heady, courageous, often violent, cruel and dispiriting “Votes for Women” campaign of which Muriel Matters was in the forefront.