Reviews

Innovative, collaborative, inspiring, visceral and hypnotic, More or Less Concrete could be interpreted as a work about the nature of different and changing forms of concrete - however it is much more than that. 

Break a leg! Almost, but not quite!

Leading man Mikey Hart dropped a water tank on his toe, breaking it. Still, in the best thespian tradition, the show went on.

I’d assumed that the walking stick and limp was part of his excellent characterisation of Dr Jekyll. Necessity being the mother of invention, it fitted with a physically weaker Jekyll asserting himself in a struggle of the wills with his brutal alter ego Mr Hyde. In this case, the roles had been split, with Peter Meredith playing Hyde.

Hornsby Musical Society’s production of The Sound of Music gets off to an outstanding start with the Nuns’ chorus, singing their share of the classic show better than I’ve ever heard it sung anywhere outside the movie.

In an inspired piece of community collaboration, the musical society has joined forces with a large, established local ladies choir (The Spirit of Sydney Chorus).

Return of the inner-native.

William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies as a novel in 1954, Peter Brook made the movie in 1963 and Nigel Williams adapted the novel for stage in the mid-nineties. In 1983 Golding won the Nobel Prize for Literature and was knighted. An illustrious pedigree indeed.