
Few musicians remain at the cutting or leading edge for thirty years or more, but KH has. This, because of his bravery. Bravery? Yes. For him, all music is fair game:

The world of contemporary dance can be a magnificent place for exploration of form, body, music and a new frontier in creative expression. It can also be a place where arrogance and self-indulgence are more apparent than artistic expression

What we have here in War Horse is something of a hybrid creation, part quaint English drama and grandly-staged war epic, told through actors interacting with impressively complex puppetry.

The Irish playwright Enda Walsh’s 2010 tragi-comedy Penelope draws on Homer’s Odyssey, in which Penelope waits twenty years for her husband Odysseus to return from his voyage.

Black witted Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, is storytelling at its most hypnotic.

This production is fun, light hearted theatre that while not taking its subject matter too seriously leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling upon its final messages.

The Street Theatre has brought to Canberra two of the cleverest interpreters of Shakespeare’s work who ever trotted the globe.