Leonardo’s Bride
Flinders Uni Refectory
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
It’s not very often we hear a debut album as good as Angel Blood, released earlier this year by Sydney band, Leonardo’s Bride. There is a lyrical introspection and a perky confidence about them that is reminiscent of Do Re Mi or even the Go-Betweens. There is also a sense of a group arriving on the scene, not with the usual larval potential but already formed. You know… butterfly-ready.
With both …
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by Robert Hewett
State Theatre
Playhouse
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
As State Theatre’s Australian Playhouse staggers to an unceremonious conclusion with the recent announcement that Away has been scratched from the 1997 card, it is something of an irony that Don’s Party and now Gulls have actually given us two very good reasons for reviving works from our national repertoire. Unlike earlier choices such as The Torrents and The Shifting Heart, which held more historical than dramatic interest, Gulls, …
Continue Reading Back to topThe Mourning After
by Verity Laughton
Playbox
Space
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Belle Doyle may be by herself on the beach on Christmas Day but she is not alone. Verity Laughton’s comic weepie The Mourning After, is a monodrama with a cast of dozens. The situation is emotionally raw. Belle’s husband Harry has unexpectedly gone blue and died on the morning of Christmas Eve. In fact he has died in the middle of an argument over whether Belle, a song …
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