One day, notwithstanding the vigour we might now possess, or assert, you and I might well lapse into a social stratum to which we've no particular aspiration. The drooling class. We are all born to die. But it's a living death, perhaps, we fear most.
NIDA’s 2009 graduating class production of Women Beware Women is a treat for those of us who rarely get to see local productions of works by either of the playwrights involved in this collaboration across the centuries.
East is East is a funny, serious, warm and confronting look at the struggles of ethnic and religious assimilation into the West, in particular of the difficulties stemming from cross-cultural intermarriage and its consequences for the resulting generation.
A gifted embroider of words, Friel combines soft lyricism and hard meaning in his play, a tragical comical historical pastoral on a spree and spoiling for a spirited spar.
In the care of Pinchgut Opera’s director, Erin Helyard, this music, formulaic as it indeed is in some respects, sprang off the page into an experience rich in emotions.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.