Attacking topics such as the gender wage gap and misogynistic boys club culture of corporate Australia, Strata Inc. pulls no punches when discussing and dissecting these all too important issues.
It is so hard to convince an audience which knows this piece inside out that they are listening to it for the first time, but that is what Barenboim achieved for me.
It is difficult to describe the performances in his cycle of Brahms symphonies. I was overwhelmed by the sheer presence of the music, the intense immediacy of the experience.
Have you ever felt like you were doomed? That every path you took in life was the wrong one, that you were not only unlucky in love, but in your career, you life, as if there was some otherworldly force determining your every move?
The story of one family on an Australian sheep farm, Lamb is an evocative, poignant and stirring exploration of intergenerational trauma, the consequences of leaving and the costs associated with staying.