
A Festival of Arts is the exact vehicle for experimental and new music, and the Adelaide Festival is to be congratulated for bringing this extraordinary musician and his troupe to expand the Adelaide musical horizon. But that doesn’t mean you have to enjoy it.

As Not Seen on TV is Berner like you’ve truly never seen him before, he’s letting it all out unfettered by the censorship rules of TV land.

There is brilliance in this show. There are moments I felt physically, moments like punches, moments of numbness. But I also found it kind of frustrating.

The Government Inspector’s charm lies in the voyeuristic nature of the script. As a part of the audience, you are in on the farce from the very beginning, and invited into the backstage world of theatre.

Playing to a capacity crowd at the Melbourne Recital Centre, pianist Roberto Fonseca quickly showed why he is one of the most highly regarded musicians of his generation.

This is a meticulously disciplined and highly accomplished choir, which deserved the rapturous applause from a packed cathedral at this 10pm concert.

Although a sometimes mildly confusing production of an often confounding play, this is nonetheless a fine rendition of one of Shakespeare’s comparatively lesser-performed works.