Recent ABR Arts reviews

• Des Cowley reviews The Usefulness of Art (fortyfivedownstairs) ★★★★1/2
• Peter Rose reviews Thaïs (MSO) ★★★★
• Susan Lever reviews The Father (Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company) ★★★
• Anwen Crawford review God's Own Country (Rialto Distribution) ★★★★
• Jake Wilson reviews The Lost City of Z (Studio Canal) ★★★1/2
• Ian Dickson reviews The Rape of Lucretia (Sydney Chamber Opera and Victorian Opera) ★★★★
• Francesca Sasnaitis reviews The King's Choice (Palace Films) ★★★1/2

Mark Leonard Winter

If it takes courage to be a sculptor, as Henry James suggested, it may take even more to be an actor. Few thespians enjoy much financial security. How good then it is to read that Mark Leonard Winter was among the ten recipients of the 2017 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, unrestricted grants that are each worth $160,000 over two years. Mark Leonard Winter has been magnetic in plays like Suddenly Last Summer, King Lear, and Chimerica. He won two 2016 Helpmann Awards. The Myer folk rightly note: ‘He is a true collaborator. He works with this country’s best directors and is for all of them, an “actor of choice”.’

Mark Leonard Winter, Brent Hill, Tony Cogin, and Rebecca Massey in Sydney Theatre Company’s Chimerica (photograph by Brett Boardman)

Also successful in the round of the Myer Fellowships were Angela Betzien, Emily Tomlins, Genevieve Clay-Smith, Hiromi Tango, Jade Lillie, Julia deVille, Kyle Page, Megan Washington, and Yitzhak Yedid.