Reviews

Miranda Hill is an incredible driving force behind this blissful exploration of classical music. In its 14th year, HOMOPHONIC! Continues to ardently promote and celebrate queer composers and musicians. Hill carefully curates collections of music that represent extraordinary talent that is often overlooked or obscured. This year this vision is particularly emphatic and unapologetic as it takes euphoria as its predominant theme. 

Since its inception in 2021, HER Productions has become a small ‘tour de force’ on the theatre scene in Newcastle.  Low Level Panic is their first venture onto the bigger Sydney stage.  What better way to do so than with the team at bAKEHOUSE, whose business is “supporting independent theatre, diverse work and new and emerging artists.” And what better theatre to perform a play set in a bathroom than the intimate traverse stage of KXT on Broadway!

Official opening night event of the Perth Festival, Wundig Wer Wilera, is a real crowd-pleaser.

The traditional Noongar legend of young lovers – Wundig (Jarred Wall), a young man from the Hills and Wilera (Jess Hitchcock), a young girl of the Grass people, both in the York area of Western Australia, are betrothed to others but after a chance meeting by the river, find themselves in love.

The couple’s chemistry is perfectly embodied by the voices of Jarred Wall and Jess Hitchcock, blending harmoniously in their duets.

Handel’s dramatic oratorio Theodora was first performed in Covent Garden in 1750. It is in English, set to the libretto by Thomas Morell. It is said that Handel considered it his best work, though history would seem to favour Messiah. It is Handel’s only tragic oratorio and the only one written in English.

Set in Rome, in the 4th century AD, it tells the story of the Christian martyr Theodora who refuses to pay homage to the Roman god, Venus, and is executed with her Roman lover Didymus, who has secretly converted to Christianity.