The Mathematics of Longing
“Maths is a language created by humans to find the wonder and the transcendental about the world and the universe, as well as the beauty, power and fragility of the human [...]
Theatre
Briefs: Close Encounters
It feels like forever since I’ve viewed the world through rose-coloured glasses. Idiot leaders, global financial crises, wars, environmental disasters, more idiot [...]
Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company
Reviewing Blackrock by La Boîte Theatre Company was never going to be an easy task. Now something of an Australian theatre classic, it examines the social impulse to [...]
Opera Q’s Ruddigore at QPAC
Opera Q is knocking it out of the park at the moment, and I say that as someone who doesn’t know enough about either sport or opera to use such metaphors. But I do [...]
Lady Beatle at La Boîte Theatre Company
I’ve been brainwashed. I didn’t realise it until last night, but I know every damn word to every damn song The Beatles ever released. I thought I was a fairly ambivalent [...]
Bizet’s The Pearlfishers at QPAC
Whenever I’m researching opera (which I need to do a lot of when I write about it – I am to opera what Pauline Hanson is to elocution), it strikes me that [...]
Kinky Boots is stomping in to Brisbane
Sometimes you don’t know how much you don’t want to see something until you’ve already seen it. For example: However, it’s in the ether now so [...]
My Fair Lady spins into Brisbane
The word “legend” is waaaayyyyyyy too overused in the entertainment world, but when it comes to Dame Julie Andrews it’s almost an understatement. One of the [...]
Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White
Um…did I just attend the ballet, or an extended routine at Love & Rockets (if you’re not from Brisbane, google it)? Yes, the Gaultier-designed costumes were a [...]
Collette Brennan Announced as new CEO of Abbotsford Convent
Brennan is a former senior executive of the Australia Council for the Arts and Executive Director of Circa, with leadership experience in performing arts, youth arts, [...]
