Culture

Yaron Lifschitz’s compelling production of Dido & Aeneas for Opera Australia brings the acrobatic entertainments of a European royal court into the 21st century.

The most interesting thing about French artist Théo Mercier’s sand sculpture Mirrorscape is not its form but the process of its un-forming.

Marion Potts’s staging of Henry 5 for Bell Shakespeare is a study of its beautiful language, and the breathtaking cruelty that resonates today.

Comedian and theatre maker Lou Wall embraces the chaos of live performance, with winning results.

For what do you pray, in La Cappella dal Salt? For what and to whom? You come upon it by accident (still believing in accidents) veering from the old mule track during a thunderstorm, taking shelter from the rain sweeping the mountainside and beating the piode roof. Inside green bracken ferns knuckle up through the flag floor, the stone benches still holding warmth from the morning.