Travesties is a play that swims around playfully in a thick pool of language. This is a pool, overflowing with comments on the nature of art, running gags, and even limericks.
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
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.
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
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.
Iolanthe and Janet Anderson work in cosmic, comedic accord, characterisation charismatic, timing impeccable, delivery precise, together a tour de force that ascends the cliché.
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.