Puck and his fellow fairies from Midsummer Night’s Dream have often cast their magic over Melbourne's Botanic Gardens but, this time, the magic is delivered by more human hands: The Mechanicals.
It is rare indeed to attend a work whose dramatic place is less than a kilometre from its place of staging.
Returning to The Malthouse’s Beckett Theatre for the first time in two years, it was a night of debuts across the board at the premiere of Aran Thangaratnam’s Stay Woke.
I doubt that this opera will ever make it into the standard repertoire. Yet congratulations to the Festival organisers for putting it on especially in the current circumstances.