This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Patricia Cornelius’ AFL drama In the Club, the MSO’s genial but incisive triple bill, Zahra Newman’s five-star Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Stephanie Lake’s exuberant Manifesto, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, and The Song Company at Trinity College Chapel.
DANCE Stephanie Lake’s Manifesto returnsSome of the year’s best theatre has faced down sexual assault in the wake of the #MeToo movement.portrayed an adolescent debating team from an all-boys school, exposing misogyny under feminist rhetoric. Now Patricia Cornelius tackles the AFL – the sexual abuse of women by players, and the cultural forces at play behind it.
In contrast, Ruby loves sex unashamedly, though an early experience has left her streetwise and alert. She shrugs off the double standard that slut-shames women while men are applauded for being promiscuous. And time might fray her sexual allure, as the veteran player who keeps trying it on with her cruelly points out, but it will also make him expendable, yesterday’s man.Olivia, meanwhile, grew up surrounded by women and disliked boys.
Celebrating the life and legacy of Sara Weis, who moved to Australia after being a resistance fighter in World War II, the score is influenced by minimalist tropes often flavoured with vivid percussion timbres and interesting harmonic shifts.
Anecdotes from her life are riffed upon with a loose, jazz-inspired coherence, and songs take flight when words flail. A carousing, devil-may-care vibe – which sees Billie drifting through cabaret tables singing– yields to defiant melancholy and bruising songs of love and grief.
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