Barry Otto

2013 Adelaide Festival Round-up

David Sefton's first Adelaide Festival recently concluded as an artistic, box-office and personal success for the new Artistic Director. 2013…

12 years ago

Adelaide Festival: The Kreutzer Sonata – A Subtle Beauty

Named after Beethoven’s own ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, Tolstoy’s novella was first published in 1889 only to be immediately censored by the…

12 years ago

The Histrionic – Sydney Theatre Company

Thomas Bernhard was mad as hell, and so he wrote The Histrionic. Bernhard, the story goes, was so enraged by…

13 years ago

STC brings rare black comedy to Australia

Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard's The Histrionic is rarely performed outside Europe, but the Sydney Theatre Company is bringing the black comedy…

13 years ago

The Histrionic

Until I hit Google, I didn't  know about Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. A quote from the New York Times that his works…

13 years ago