Times of My Life celebrates her contemporaries and forefathers, on stage and small screen; in so doing, it proves something of an instructive history lesson, a veritable masterclass, for the WAAPA gen Y set.
If you require a plot summary of the Star Wars Trilogy then this show is definitely not for you. Casual fans, who have only seen the trilogy five or six times, will have no trouble following proceedings.
As always with Stoppard the themes are big – but mainly it’s a study of the various social freedoms and restrictions that go hand-in-hand with both communism and democracy/capitalism.
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.
Blind faith and rational belief are always sparring partners in dramatic conflict and so it is here with the power play tinged with superstition and salaciousness.
Contradiction, conundrum, conflict, racism, misogyny and homophobia run through this play like a main circuit cable snaking through a moral minefield of explosive allegation.