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From the deeply personal we can see the universal, and the music has a lasting self-reflective impact in Hymns for the Witching Hour.

From puppets to theatre, music and comedy at Speaker’s Corner, plus a melting iceberg suspended over Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sydney Festival is set to surprise.

From puppets to theatre, music and comedy at Speaker’s Corner, plus a melting iceberg suspended over Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sydney Festival is set to surprise.

From puppets to theatre, music and comedy at Speaker’s Corner, plus a melting iceberg suspended over Sydney Harbour, this year’s Sydney Festival is set to surprise.

Last modified on Sun 23 May 2021 20.41 EDT Conversation might be ubiquitous in our world, but how much do we truly listen? Theatre-maker Roslyn Oades’s work has long concerned itself with the human voice and the complexity of aural communication. With shows such as Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday and I’m Your Man, she helped pioneer a “headphone verbatim” technique where actors re-speak live the recorded words of real people as they listen to them. Her new piece for Melb...

It’s Chinatown: your guide to RISING’s golden district We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement There’s a lot to love about Melbourne’s Chinatown. It’s where the dim sim as we know it was born, for instance, but that’s the kind of distinction you’d expect from the oldest continuous Chinese settlement in the Western world. Part of its longevity might be due to its ability to tra...