Reviews

As the world grapples with climate change and the United Nations calls for action to protect the world’s river systems, the members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra turn to music to inspire critical thinking around the need to love and respect Mother Earth.

Mandy Nolan is a big woman – big presence, big voice, big personality.  Pillar box red dress and cowboy boots.  A comedian for twenty years, she was selected by the Greens to run as their candidate for Richmond (Northern NSW, Northern Rivers) in the 2022 Federal election.  At first, she said no.  She’s a comedian not a politician.  But she has ‘profile’ in the electorate - and she’s a magnetic, attractive, what-you-see-is what-you-get, funny woman.  Asked again, she agreed – after all, she agrees with the Greens’ polici

A thoughtful mash-up of Alice in Wonderland, family demands, religious commitments, and the difficulties of artistic expression is used to explore the pain and loss inflicted on a family by mental illness.

Don Quixote is a long-time happy crowd-pleaser, nothing too unconventional but, given its profound association with the Australian Ballet, David Hallberg appropriately revives it for the company’s 60th anniversary.  

The genius Russian choreographer and showman Petipa created the ballet 150 years ago. Petipa largely ignored the old knight errant lancing at windmills, and focused instead on a minor subplot of the Cervantes novel, about two young lovers battling to be together.