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HELEN MUSA‘s latest arts news – today’s “Artsday” column. THE Ten Tenors are coming to town as part of their 25th anniversary tour. The song list will feature all the favourites, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Hallelujah” and “Nessun Dorma”. 2pm and 7pm, Sunday, July 18, book here or call 6275 2700. “UNVEILED” is a collaboration between Suzy Piani and Bonnie Neate of Dance Central, inspired by “Giselle”. It’s a one-hour contemporary work at Erindale Theatre at 7pm on July 16 and 17. Book here. Sophie Benassi and Kate Gaul rehearsing “Orlando” at NIDA. GOOD news that Canberra director Sophie Benassi has been undertaking a professional placement for a month on “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” in Melbourne, working with resident director Naomi Edwards. Last year Sophie completed an MFA at NIDA and earlier this year she directed Louis Nowra’s ....
Theatre / “Cosi”, by Louis Nowra, directed by Sophie Benassi. At Canberra Rep until April 24. Reviewed by ARNE SJOSTEDT In SBS’s “Food Safari”, host Maeve O’Mara sometimes seems like she’s been thrown out of her depth, into some kind of cultural practice of a culinary variety that is unfamiliar, and Maeve just isn’t quite handling it. It’s not that she isn’t respectful, just not comfortable with it all. While the overall impression was satisfying, there was a bit of that going on with this production. Amidst some capable and immersive portrayals, the madness on stage was fractious and riddled with mania and an infantile energy that at times infected even the straight characters. ....
The cast of “Cosi”. Photo: Helen Drum. THE ghost of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may well be lurking in the shadows of Canberra this weekend, with the opening of Louis Nowraâs 1992 play âCosìâ at Canberra REP tomorrow night, April 9, and Mozartâs opera âLa Clemenza di Titoâ at Llewellyn Hall on Saturday, April 10. Canberra REP held a media call on Tuesday, April 6, in which the lines between sanity and insanity were exceedingly blurred. Set in a burnt-out theatre against the backdrop of the political activism of the Vietnam War, âCosìâ sees the idealistic young drama graduate Lewis (Martin Fatmaja) taking a job directing a play in a Melbourne mental facility, armed with the theories of Bertolt Brecht. Something similar happened to playwright Nowra when he was young. ....