Tehran features a series of snapshot-like proses, songs and shadow puppetry which have taken inspiration from Forugh Farrokhzad's poem 'Conquest of the Garden,' a poem describing a crow's flight over a city, observing the lives of the people below from a vagabond cloud.
Music is a constant companion to Shakespeare's work, appearing at significant moments throughout his plays - be it associated with magic or the supernatural, or with transformation and new spiritual realisation.
If your backside can endure an uncushioned bench for a couple of hours, a play must be pretty damn good. Andrew Bovell's When The Rain Stops Falling is better than good.
Savage In Limbo isn't as well-known or as oft-performed as the Oscar-winner's other plays. Probably because it cuts a little deeper and is more emotionally challenging; the last applying for both actors and audiences.
Prime: Orderly is the latest work by dancer-choreographer, Dean Walsh, based on two years' research into marine environments, a luxury afforded by his tenure as Dance Fellow with the Australia Council.
From the electricity that is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; two Australian productions were hand-picked to transfer their enthusiastically reviewed dramas to the theatres of the West End.