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New Australian–Irish coproduction of Roméo et Juliette grasps the spiritual quality of the opera

New Australian–Irish coproduction of Roméo et Juliette grasps the spiritual quality of the opera

Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is given a significant new production from State Opera South Australia, West Australian Opera and the Irish...

24.10.2025 3

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Russell Fewster

‘I have seen how the arts has changed people’: remembering Roz Hervey and her contribution to Australian dance

Much loved and respected Adelaide-based dancer, choreographer, director and producer Roz Hervey passed away last week. Her passing followed the...

13.11.2024 30

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With The Puzzle, David Williamson shows his continual capacity to satirise the middle-class

Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to me in...

25.09.2024 8

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Remembering Jack Hibberd: the revolutionary playwright who heard Australia, and reflected us back to ourselves

For Jack Hibberd, writing plays came from an “geographical accident”. As a young medical intern in the 1960s, he “fell in with the bohemian”...

03.09.2024 10

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