First published in Mess+Noise, here.
Online label New Weird Australia likes to hold its gigs at the plusher end of the Sydney warehouse spectrum. The previous show was at Marrickville’s luscious Red Rattler and tonight is at the well-appointed St Petersburg in St Peters. This is a good thing. I enjoy concrete bunkers with crumbling stairwells and a light dusting of asbestos as much as the next music fan but sometimes it’s nice not to slum it.
Love, jealousy, fear, passion, returning again to be held captive by love, jealousy, fear, passion. Overcome by the swooning, narcotic hope that it will be different, next time around.
How people raved about ‘Black Watch’! Performed during the 2008 Sydney Festival, tickets were devoured by those in the loop and critics and audiences agreed it was an extraordinary piece of physical theatre. Choreographed by Steven Hoggett, director of UK physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, many Sydney-siders who missed Black Watch eagerly awaited Frantic Assembly’s return.
The Brag, February 2010
If a story is good and the characters are strong, a great storyteller will relay it with little fuss. Photographer William Yang knows this well. He glides out from the darkness to stand in front of a simple podium as two large screens bloom into life behind him, into another era, showing the first of the evening’s photographs. He begins the story.
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