Eliza Doolittle (Claire Lyon) has got on top of where it rains in Spain and the safest topics of conversation (weather and health). She has entranced everyone at an upper-crust ball, looking unutterably poised in white. She has been the toast of Royal Ascot, scene of arguably the most delicious display of glamour in all…
Tag: George Bernard Shaw
There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow
In March 2008, when I was still on staff at The Australian, I wrote a piece about musical theatre ahead of an Opera Australia production of My Fair Lady. With OA and John Frost opening The King and I in Brisbane, with Melbourne and Sydney seasons to follow, I pulled it out of the vault. THE golden…
February wrap
A quick look at what February brought in the theatre in Sydney, and beyond … AT this year’s Perth International Arts Festival I was able to see, in one evening, the festival’s biggest and smallest pieces of theatre – The Threepenny Opera from the Berliner Ensemble, weighing in at about three hours and filling His…
