Reviews

In this weird and twisted little queer-safe story, two sisters live in a cold and rotting house in 1800s Yorkshire, in total, complete and utter isolation. Oh, except for an indeterminant number of servant (one? Two? Three?), an indeterminant number of brothers (none? One? One, but dead?) and one morose and despairing mastiff. Obviously, they don’t really count. Then one day, new meat arrives in the form of one hapless governess and one very sweet anthropomorphic moorhen.

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Freiburger Barockorchester) consists of 29 musicians dedicated to preserving and promoting historically informed performance practice. The acclaimed orchestra was founded in 1987 and is based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) and Cecilia Bernardini (violin) are both the artistic directors, alternating the duties of musical arrangement for their concerts. As an orchestra and an ensemble they are widely sought after, often attracting renowned conductors, and they are currently in Melbourne offering three separate concerts.

Fighting is not an easy play to watch, but it’s important that we do! Fighting is about bipolar, a mental illness that few people understand – apart from those who suffer from it. Playwright Xavier Coy is one of those people. He wrote the play shortly after being diagnosed. “The play is raw,” he says, “and by far the most personal I have written. I had to write it that way to … help the audience understand that we are not crazy.”