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the happiest refugee

‘There are two times in life. There is now and there is too late.’

Do echoes the sentiments and philosophy of his father with whom he has conflicting emotions, and who abandoned him at a young age.

THE HAPPIEST REFUGEE …

Music

celtic woman

Recently voted Billboard Magazine’s Artist of the Year for the 5th time, the group CELTIC WOMAN,  currently comprising Mairead Carlin, Lisa Lambe, Mairead Nesbitt and Susan McFadden,  put on a great show for Sydneysiders last Friday night at the Sydney …

Circus, Sydney Festival: Past Years

ockham’s razor

Aerial acrobatics can be relied upon to provide exciting thrills, as it easily evokes sensations of tension and vertigo, but to create narratives and imagery that bear strong aesthetic appeal within that framework is a challenging one. OCKHAM’S RAZOR succeeds …

Sydney Festival: Past Years, Theatre

cadavre exquis

CADAVRE2Undeniably this theatre work is inventive, unconventional, modern, well-performed and, given that it includes film, dance, music, actors stripping to their underwear, and even a person in a gorilla suit, a production of commendable variety. For some, no doubt, it …

Cinema

paranormal activity: the marked ones

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY2It’s a bit of a well-worn cliché for a reviewer to state that a particular film deprived them of a certain amount of time (in this case a mercifully short 84 minutes) they’ll never get back, but for want of …

Dance, Sydney Festival: Past Years

forklift

An absorbing blend of dance, physical theatre and the warehouse/industrial environment Forklift is brought to us by KAGE from Melbourne as part of the 2014 Sydney Festival.

Directed by Kate Denborough, there are three female performers in the show (four …

Dance, Music, Sydney Festival: Past Years

chi udaka

CHI UDAKA100One of the major highlights of the 2014 Sydney Festival CHI UDAKA is an explosively energetic blending of colour, rhythm, dance and music. Inspired by the forces of nature, ,’Chi ‘ is Earth ( the Taikoz musicians) and ‘Udaka ‘ …

Theatre

empire

It’s not often you walk out of a performance completely lost for words, but even those of the superlative variety fail to do justice to EMPIRE by Spiegelworld, which opened last night in Sydney. My mate who was lucky enough …

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