
The idea of an all-Australian chamber orchestra in the UK shouldn’t be strange. After all, there are thousands of Australians living and working in the UK and it seems fitting that a concert entitled Maralinga Lament should be conducted and performed by those who call Australia home.

Mr K embraces cabaret in its broadest, truest sense, presenting a melange of comedy, song & dance.

There is no single word to address the depth and complexities of Victoria Hunt’s work. Electrifying perhaps may do some justice: the work reverberates with personal narrative, political tensions and is technologically sophisticated.

In the context of the tragedies wrought by its horrific wars, this extraordinary work must surely be the most significant composition of the twentieth century.

Beck surprises and compels with her thoughtful, carefully constructed, subtle, unclassifiable songs, while Martinez thrills with her scintillating performance skills.

Spectacle and orchestra, a mash-up of punk, jazz, Balkan gypsy folk and big brassy carnival scores – it's all here in a show touting itself as 'Cold War served warm.'

Melbourne has been invaded by pirates. The Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance, that is.