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On Sunday I caught up with Anthony L and Robin M, for our semi-regular dinner and was quite delighted when they pulled out a couple of old bottles (from 1998) from Kirwan's Bridge Winery. More than 20 years ago, I created a website for the winery (now sold off, sadly) and received a crate of plonk for my efforts, the final bottles being quaffed more than 10 years ago. The 1998 bottles were past their best, but still very drinkable. A credit to wine, the company, and the people who kept it in careful storage! Perhaps in this way, aging red wines and red people are similar.
Hot on the heels of the visit to the Pharoah Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, the last few days have witnessed a couple of delvings into the dramatic arts. On Tuesday Erica H., came to visit and we went to the Malthouse Theatre (located five minutes walk away) to see "Macbeth (An Undoing)", scoring some pretty decent seats. It was quite a clever re-writing focussing mainly on Lady Macbeth as less of a villain and more of an opportunist. The rotating stage really worked well, creating the illusion of the many rooms of a Scottish castle, whilst the performers took the opportunity to break the fourth wall a few times. It was really quite an excellent performance.
Finally, last night Ruby and I ventured out to one of my favourite haunts, the Astor Theatre, to see Yorgos Lanthimos' latest work,
"Kinds of Kindness". This was a challenging and often gruesome triptych with more than a dash of magical realism, and thematically orientated around control and violence. It is certainly not to everyone's taste by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm quite happy to see disturbing films - or series for that matter - in a completely different subject, Erica H., and I smashed our way through "Baby Reindeer" in a single sitting, a rather tragic and painful tale which is full of wrong decisions by all parties.
Anyway, I'm composing all this at Melbourne Airport about to board a flight to Bali for several days. Lara D., has organised a small party of six to actually have a real holiday where we put work and Australian life on the backburner for just a short period of time. Whilst I am a bit of a seasoned traveller to the island, it has been several years since I've put foot on the place. I suspect that I will certainly. visiting my old haunts in Sanur and Ubud. Holiday time!
Hot on the heels of the visit to the Pharoah Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, the last few days have witnessed a couple of delvings into the dramatic arts. On Tuesday Erica H., came to visit and we went to the Malthouse Theatre (located five minutes walk away) to see "Macbeth (An Undoing)", scoring some pretty decent seats. It was quite a clever re-writing focussing mainly on Lady Macbeth as less of a villain and more of an opportunist. The rotating stage really worked well, creating the illusion of the many rooms of a Scottish castle, whilst the performers took the opportunity to break the fourth wall a few times. It was really quite an excellent performance.
Finally, last night Ruby and I ventured out to one of my favourite haunts, the Astor Theatre, to see Yorgos Lanthimos' latest work,
"Kinds of Kindness". This was a challenging and often gruesome triptych with more than a dash of magical realism, and thematically orientated around control and violence. It is certainly not to everyone's taste by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm quite happy to see disturbing films - or series for that matter - in a completely different subject, Erica H., and I smashed our way through "Baby Reindeer" in a single sitting, a rather tragic and painful tale which is full of wrong decisions by all parties.
Anyway, I'm composing all this at Melbourne Airport about to board a flight to Bali for several days. Lara D., has organised a small party of six to actually have a real holiday where we put work and Australian life on the backburner for just a short period of time. Whilst I am a bit of a seasoned traveller to the island, it has been several years since I've put foot on the place. I suspect that I will certainly. visiting my old haunts in Sanur and Ubud. Holiday time!
