Reviews

British playwright, poet and actor Azan Ahmed remembers his father’s stories of the daytime raves in England in 1980s and 90s where young South Asians came together to escape strict family rules and the discrimination practised at night clubs. He recalls “Tales from my Baba’s teens, him cutting up the dance floor at 90s Daytimers. My aunts and uncles had similar stories … of young 2nd generation British Asians cultivating their own genres of music, fashions and slang which blended their identities.”

Conor Lynch imitates or impersonates a chimpanzee just about perfectly.  Just about.  Dressed in a black singlet, black shorts and black shoes with separate toes, he represents a chimpanzee that we come to know and like and interact with over the course of an hour. 

I have to admit to being a Benjamin Britten opera fanatic, have been since University. However, I was not as familiar with his string quartets, that is, until I attended Convergence at the Elder Hall, performed by the esteemed Australian String Quartet on the eve of their 40th birthday.

Two clowns create ‘fragile’ havoc as gallery installers; Rachel Colquoun- Fairweather and Will Bartolo, a first-rate duo, work together seamlessly in their much-heralded show Masterpiece. They collaborate as opposites, in motivation, gag and performance. They step out on to the stage with a clunky shoe shuffle routine, holding on to the large art canvas (covered in bubble wrap and blue tape). It takes two people and four pairs of hands in white gloves to handle this piece of art. They are buffoons and want their audiences to be entertained with their story.