On Saturday 11 March, conductor Paul Terracini will lead the orchestra in a concert featuring two towering Romantic favourites: the iconic Grieg Piano Concerto – featuring locally-born pianist Kathryn Selby AM – and Tchaikovsky's much-loved 6th Symphony, the Pathetique. Plus two more recent composers' exploration of contemporary issues in crime against humanity and the connection between man and nature: young local composer Angus Davison's The Laws of Motion and Martinu's Ode to Lidice.
The personal heartwarming story of an unusual singing student wanting to reconnect with her love of music plays out in Joanna Weinberg's new 75 minute musical THE SECRET SINGER.
Eve Theater Company opens its fifth season with Bathsheba Doran's play Kin. Year five always seems to be a milepost: a time for a company to take stock of itself and others. So I would note that this production seems to represent an important moment of maturity and ambition for Eve. It reaches for a subtlety and emotional range greater than most of their previous efforts. The company's mission of a focus on women led to early productions that featured small groups of women hermetically observed: aging prostitutes on a shared bench, or friends moving through marriage and divorces through the years. Most were casts of only women.
