
Pinchgut only perform one opera a year, but their production of Cavalli’s 17th century hit, Giasone, would make you think they played baroque opera constantly, so at ease was everyone with the style.

This is an interesting portrait of a person, but a powerful exploration of personal choice in the face of wider societal expectations.

The show is entertaining, engaging, hilarious at points, yet quite heart-breaking in others. The music is spectacular and Chappell and Dikkenberg’s voices are like liquid gold.

US Belgian-based dancer/choreographer Eleanor Bauer creates a work of playful eloquence, humour, poignancy, ambivalence and honesty.

When it isn’t getting bogged down in Shakespeare’s verbiage, it’s light-hearted, funny, and kind of gloriously anti-romantic.

Mullum Music Festival, now all packed up until next year, is such a smorgasbord festival of the creative kind: you have to embrace it, cruise with it, chillax, contemplate, absorb and slide into the slip-stream of events.

><R&J is eclectic, ironic, highly referential and revels in deconstruction and transformation.