Lynne's Theatre Notes

 Here's what I said for Artshub https://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/lynne-lancaster/music-review-lone-hemispheres-the-solo-sessions-261663 Music Review: Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions A specifically digital release, Ensemble Offspring's Lone Hemispheres showcases challenging contemporary works. Lamorna Nightingale plays Liza Lim's  Bioluminescence  for  Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions . Image: Ensemble Offspring Youtube channel. LYNNE LANCASTER Saturday 19 December, 2020 Presented by Ensemble Offspring,  Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions  is a very exciting compilation of short online solo performances. Featuring splendid performances by Artistic Director Claire Edwardes, Lamorna Nightingale (flute), Jason Noble (clarinet), Véronique Serret (violin) and Blair Harris & Freya Schack-Arnott (cello) in various challenging contemporary works. A specifically digital release,  Lone Hemispheres  featu...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/pinchgut-opera-in-charpentiers-messe-de-minuit/ PINCHGUT OPERA : MESSE DE MINUIT @ CITY RECITAL HALL 14 DECEMBER 2020   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT A most delightful Christmas pudding of a rich, varied and thoroughly enjoyable performance, elegantly cultivated yet refined and articulate. At a reduced capacity City Recital Hall, with lights like stars , wonderful Pinchgut under the enthusiastic direction of Erin Helyard brought us Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s midnight mass for Christmas with added musical interludes by Boismortier and Chédeville. Charpentier’s work is based on 10 “noëls,” popular Christmas tunes (carols) of the era, each one as a section of the liturgy: ( eg the Credo ,the Gloria, Kyrie ) . It was composed around 1690, probably for the Jesuits Church of Saint-Louis in Paris where he was maître de musique. The orchestra was compressed, consisting of strings and chamber organ backed by a trio of winds, and Charpentier...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/raphael-revealed/ EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: RAPHAEL REVEALED 24 NOVEMBER 2020   LYNNE LANCASTER The team from Exhibition on Screen have brought us their latest work, RAPHAEL REVEALED. It marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death and is based on the major exhibition at Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale which was forced to close very soon after opening because of Covid. The exhibition had already become one of the most talked about art events of 2020. Exhibition on Screen was granted exclusive access to the exhibition just before it reopened in June (it officially finished at the end of August and was sold out). With unprecedented loans from the Louvre, Uffizi, National Gallery of Art, the Prado Museum, the National Gallery of London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and others about one hundred and twenty of the artist’s masterpieces from across the globe were displayed. Raphael is regarded as one of the three great artists of the Rena...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/traffic-jam-galleries-pat-hall-in-full-bloom/ TRAFFIC JAM GALLERIES NEW EXHIBITION : PAT HALL ‘IN FULL BLOOM’ 11 DECEMBER 2020   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT Pat Hall ‘Lotus’ Pat Hall ‘Spray Of Orchards’ Pat Hall ‘Garland’ A small but thrilling pop up exhibition is currently on display at Traffic Jam Galleries – works by Pat Hall entitled FIRST BLOOM. Pat Hall was born in Kent, England in 1963. She completed her Honours Degree in Graphic Design at Brighton University in 1985 before working as a designer in London. After immigrating to Australia in 1991 she worked as an illustrator for many years and now paints full time from her home studio in Mitchelton, Queensland. These vibrant, ,exquisite watercolours of flora on stretched paper canvas are full of amazing attention to detail. You can feel the rich or delicate textured surface of the leaves and flowers .Hall’s works are watercolours but look like marvellous photos – posh, gloss...

  https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/the-art-book-by-phaidon/ THE ART BOOK : NEW EDITION 13 DECEMBER 2020   LYNNE LANCASTER   LEAVE A COMMENT Very thick and heavy,  lavishly,  lushly illustrated, this new edition also contains a glossary of technical terms, another of artistic movements and an index. Over 500 of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the present day are included in this impressive, glossy new edition. Arranged in alphabetical order , from Berenice Abbott and Maina Abramovic to Francesco Zuccarelli and Francisco de Zurburan , each artist has a one paragraph biography and is represented by just one image of their work. Artists they were influenced by or are similar in style to are cross referenced. The dates of the artists’ lives are down the bottom of the page as is the date and media of the work. Painting, photography, sculpture, conceptual and performance art are included but not architecture. There is a major European and American focus ...

 hi Why do shops start selling hot cross buns on Boxing Day ?!!! It's nuts!! Lynne 

  KINKY BOOTS Ladies and gentlemen, and those who have yet to make up their mind …. We are privileged to see this splendid production brough to us by Sharmill Films. It is a wonder the theatre’s fire alarms didn’t go off -   this show is so HOT with fantastic high energy performances by a terrific cast led by the original West End leads Killian Donnelly as Charlie and Matt Henry as Lola/Simon. It was filmed at London’s Adelphi Theatre with songs from Grammy and Tony award winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, book by legendary Broadway playwright Harvey Fierstein and direction and choreography by Jerry Mitchell .There was a short on screen interval (10 mins) between the show’s two acts.   The use of close ups and fast camera shifts enabled us to follow the narrative onstage .The sizzling, dyamic energy of the stage show and the frantic factory life are terrifically depicted.   Inspired by true events, and based on the 2005 film written by Geoff Deane and Tim F...