In this danced-through reimagining of the world’s most-popular opera, we are pulled into the characters’ inner turmoil.
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Dance can’t literally tell history, but it can tell historical truths, as shown by Akram Khan’s Xenos at the Adelaide Festival.
The Great War uses scale models to give a worm’s eye view of titanic violence. In Kings of War, by contrast, lethal events are viewed from the unsteady perspective of leaders.
Neil Armfield’s production of the Brett Dean opera Hamlet is a confronting three hours in the theatre, but then so is Shakespeare’s play. The second act is devastating in its emotional impact.
Memorial brings Alice Oswald’s poetic retelling of the Iliad to the stage, with its furious indictment of war and its aftermath.
