The Daylight Atheist
By Tom Scott
State Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company co-production
The Space
Murray Bramwell
A daylight atheist, New Zealand playwright Tom Scott tells us, is someone who doesn’t believe in God until it gets dark. Dan Moffat, the dominant of many voices in Scott’s monodrama, is a man for whom the night is closing in. An Irish emigrant to New Zealand after the end of the war in 1945, Moffat is followed by his wife and infant …
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Governor Hindmarsh
Murray Bramwell
We’ve had many good nights at the Gov – last week, two in a row. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is on his sixth visit but, this time, he is spruiking his first album of new material in a while. Dedicated, as he says, “to rebels, outcasts and unruly characters of all types,” Twilight of the Renegades begins with Paul Gauguin in Tahiti and veers outwards from …
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