Epicentre Theate Company (etc) is to be congratulated and lauded for having the temerity to take on such an ambitious project, to say nothing of pulling it off so, so competently
In John Bell's desperately-contemporary The Alchemist, the cult of modern fame and fortune apparently collide with 400-year-old ye'olde' English interplay. Yet it's all quite unrecognisable.
Backed by a skilled eight-piece band, the singer roamed widely, too widely, in repertoire, and took quite some time to redeem a diffident, lacklustre first set.
Descriptors such as adventurous and experimental have been used in relation to her sound which, in effect, while its roots are undeniable, is by no means traditional, but very, very contemporary and all her own.
Don’t mention the war! And they didn’t, but they did lots of other Fawlty memorabilia, such as That Walk, some hamster/rat carry on, business with a fire extinguisher, and Manuel’s famous “I know nussing!”
I was lured into Griffin’s Stable Theatre to see the Australian premier of Dea
Loher’sTattooby the promise of a Grimm Brothersesque dark fairy tale ... I got more than I bargained for.
Jumping, after 4 solid years, from drum to piano stool, Fonseca has toured Italy with a pop-rock singer, traversed hip-hop and much other territory, to emerge at the forefront of modern jazz