Recent ABR Arts reviews

• Des Cowley reviews the 2017 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues
• 'A win for Namatjira' by Colin Golvan
• Francesca Sasnaitis reviews On Chesil Beach (British Film Festival) ★★★1/2
• Rosalind Appleby reviews Lucia di Lammermoor (WA Opera) ★★★1/2
• Lauren Carroll Harris reviews Three Summers (Transmission Films) ★1/2
• Darius Sepehri reviews Loving Vincent (Madman Entertainment) ★★★
• Zoltán Szabó reviews Sibelius and Mahler (Sydney Syphony Orchestra) ★★★

Que Reste T’il (What Remains?)

Robyn Archer – legendary performer and an ABR Laureate – will present her cabaret Que Reste T’il at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse Theatre on 10 and 11 November. The production will see her returning to the origins of cabaret by performing rarely heard works from the ‘intimate Parisian nightclubs and smoke-filled cafés of the 1880s’, through each decade to the 1970s. Works by artists including Aristide Bruant, Edith Piaf, and Charles Trenet will be sung in English and French. Archer will be accompanied by regular ABR contributor Michael Morley on piano, and George Butrumlis on accordion.

‘We have so much joy in performing these songs – the passion, the raucous fun, the biting satire that still rings so true today. It’s a great ride, and while there’s l’amour aplenty, this presents a Paris very different from the romantic cliché,’ said Archer, who won the 2013 Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer for Que Reste T’il. For more information, visit the Arts Centre website.