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| The Harp in the South at Sydney Theatre Company |
In September, I had two reviews published on the Witness Performance website. I'm really pleased to be able to add to the conversation over there.
The first was a review of Sydney Theatre Company's The Harp in the South:
The Harp in the South tells a vastly different story to David Williamson’s Emerald City or Gordon Graham’s The Boys or Jane Bodie’s This Year’s Ashes, but it feels fitting that the city itself finally gets an epic play – a prequel to the plays of Sydney that are a central part of Australia’s theatrical history. This production stands proudly and deservedly alongside its forbears.
The second was a review of Malthouse Theatre's Ich Nibber Dibber:
The formal poses of Hellenistic statues relax throughout the show and permit us to see the apparatuses upon which they’re posed. At one point, Natalie unstraps herself and pops off to the loo and the façade cracks a little. These figures aloft on pedestals aren’t angels or Venuses de Milo. They are women turning their gaze on themselves and asking us to actually listen to their experience.
The details of the conversations might seem mundane but the accumulation of those experiences turns into something profound.
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