Reviews

On the morning of this concert when told his leading lady, Lucy Durack, was suffering from a throat infection and couldn’t sing, the ever-resourceful conductor Patrick Pickett found a replacement. And what a replacement she was, Brisbane born Aria winner and international star of Andre Rieu’s concerts since 2007, Mirusia.

It is National Science Week and to celebrate, a collaborative fusion of arts and science BioFab3D and Play Reactive, have created and developed RUR 2020. It is an innovative and fascinating dystopian tale written by Rohan Byrne, adapted from Karel Capek’s science fiction play RUR (1920).

Single strangers Rachel and Greg wake up together unable to recall the night before. They gradually realise that the evening before had far bigger consequences than they could imagine. This “little bit naughty” comedy, presented by Blak Yak Theatre, is playing to enthusiastic full houses at the Shenton Park Community.

Having recently broken up with his long-term partner, Joel Bray had also just left the country he had called home for nearly a decade – Israel. A frenetic schedule of performances and creative residencies had resulted in Mr Bray finding himself in a different hotel room every week. And so he began to write. What began as scraps of scribbled words penned in hotel rooms, on trains and in cafés began to reveal themselves as ‘a love letter for home’.