Reviews

This well-loved musical, produced by Murray Music and Drama Club, has been performing to capacity crowds in Pinjarra. Losing their middle week of three to Covid complications, they bounced back (albeit one leading role down) to mount a successful final week.

Featuring a cast of 35, including some fabulous children, the show featured some gorgeous costumes - co-ordinated by Tammy Peckover. Well-constructed set pieces from Trevor Delaporte and Andy Peckover and colourful lighting from Terry Peckover help the show to look good.

A family drama, set (mostly) in the Robinson family home on the bushy outskirts of Melbourne, just before, during and after the bushfires of 2009. (The year could equally well be 2019.) The fires bring tragedy, but they are also the catalyst in the aching conflict between brothers: Matthew (Martin Blum, in a powerful brooding performance) thirty-five, and Tom (Kurt Pimblett, disturbingly mercurial) eighteen. 

The ‘young bodies’ in this notable one-act play by Miranda Michalowski belong to sisters June and Anna. June, 19, is trying madly (and hopelessly) to join her university swimming team, while Anna, 21, spends her time dancing and flirting with useless men. This is the moment when their mother, Dawn, says it’s time for them both to leave home because she wants her new boyfriend to move in.

It was heartwarming to see an almost full house at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's matinee performance of this Mozart classic. All of our national orchestras have suffered at the hand of the pandemic, the QSO being no exception, sadly, particularly as it has grown and flourished to become one of Australia's most respected orchestras, even internationally.