Archives for February 2025

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OBSERVER: Opera At The Brewery

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Popular opinion is that wine and song are a natural match.Put an Ausssie spin on that idea and you have Opera at the Brewery.Young Melbourne opera singers Leah Phillips and Luke Belle are determined to remove the stuffiness some people associate with opera and bring it to where patrons feel at home – in this…

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OBSERVER: Vale Ron Field

Theatre identity Ron Field passed away peacefully in his 100th year on January 20.Born in Wandsworth, England, on October 7, 1925, Ron’s passion for theatre was discovered when he left home at 15 and lived in a boarding house full of actors from the local theatre. He was invited backstage, saw how everything worked and…

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OBSERVER: The Butcher, The Baker

As part of this year’s Midsumma Festival, Theatre Works and Ella Filar presented The Butcher, The Baker … a musical theatre play that had wonderful songs and music but which suffered from a poor narrative structure and mediocre dialogue.A woman, Honey (played by Natasha Broadstock), in order to more fully understand a crush and obsession…

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OBSERVER: Kusama at NGV

The National Gallery of Victoria International has another brilliant blockbuster must-see exhibition currently showing in its retrospective of the work of internationally-acclaimed Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.The exhibition is organised chronologically and spans almost nine decades; from work produced in her childhood to her work in New York’s avante-garde scene in the sixties to creations made…

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OBSERVER: Berlin

Joanna Murray-Smith’s Berlin returns to Melbourne from February 27 to March 6 at the Meat Market, North Melbourne.Directed by Erica Chestnut and starring Georgia Latchford and Lachlan Hamill, the romantic thriller by one of Australia’s most renowned playwrights tells of a chance encounter in a Berlin bar which sparks a late-night connection between Tom, an…