Reviews

Somewhere up the NSW coast, north of Sydney, is the laid-back, close-knit community of McGuffin Park. They read the one-man-produced McGuffin Mail, back the local team McGuffin Hogs, eat delicious McGuffin’s Muffins, meet and drink at the ever-expanding McGuffin Arms. It seems that living inside Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite plot device is a breeze.

Babirra Music Theatre's recent production of Gypsy at The Round was a dazzling showcase of talent and passion. This timeless musical, with its iconic score and captivating story, was brought to life with stunning performances, exquisite costumes, and a masterful orchestra.

It’s hard to think of a more thrilling decade than the 1920’s, so catastrophically bookended by wars and tyranny, but so explosive in its arts, modernity and social advances.  

Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s one-hour concert series here squeezes in three compelling works from the roaring twenties.  It begins with Igor Stravinsky’s spirited suite drawing on works attributed to the 18th-century composer Giovanni Pergolesi , and relishing the Italian’s  theatricality and comedia dell arte.  

A loose adaptation of American gothic feminist/horror story The Yellow Paper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892), writer/director Eleanor Golding has offered an ambitious modern interpretation that takes this tale to another level.