Category: Arts
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A day of drama
Saturday was a rather intense day at Festival. It was also a good day. In the space of 6 hours, we saw 3 solid theatre pieces, each more dramatic and intense than the last. We started with Dinsdae by Morrie. This engaging and satisfying theatre piece kept the audience laughing and crying and left me…
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2010, Carmen and bringing the funny
Yesterday was almost ruined by a terrible reviewer. Ok it wasn’t because it’s impossible to ruin Fest, but it was negatively affected by a horrible, not-picky review of a Symphony Concert I loved. Even more annoying was the truly awful one-woman opera piece booked on the basis of his rave review. I like opera. In…
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High Diving and Dvorak
High Diving: A particularly intense theatre piece that combines excellent acting and characterisation with music and shadow-puppetry to leave you breathless. I felt it was a little heavy on the silhouettes and music, especially in the first half, and way too many scene changes but overall an excellent piece and well worth seeing. Symphony Concert:…