Limelight May 2022

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With 11 editions per year containing features, interviews, profiles, news, reviews and listening guides, Limelight provides breadth, liveliness and quality for discerning readers. Cover story- The Drover's Wife Reborn. In 2016, Leah Purcell, a proud Goa-Gungarri-Wakka Wakka Murri woman from Queensland, premiered her award-winning stage adaptation of Henry Lawson's seminal 1892 short story The Drover's Wife. Now she has made a film, which hits cinema screens this month. Purcell wrote, directed and stars in The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson, bringing a female Indigenous gaze to the (traditionally male) Western. She tells us why the project means so much to her. Feature- Kunstkamer. Never before has The Australian Ballet presented contemporary dance of this scale. Commissioned for the 60th anniversary of Nederlands Dans Theater, Kunstkamer was choreographed by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Le n. We take you inside the fascinating work, which was inspired by the 18th-century cabinet of curiosities, and brings together movement, song, film and spoken word, with music by Beethoven, Bach, Britten, Janis Joplin and Joby Talbot. Interview- Actor William McInnes discusses The Heartbreak Choir, the final play by the late Aidan Fennessy, which has its world premiere at Melbourne Theatre Company this month. The funny, warmhearted, uplifting play celebrates music, community and friendship. Soundings- Check out our popular monthly columns including On the Record, Clive Paget's round-up of the best new recordings; Cutting Edge about the latest in new music; Guy Noble's reliably amusing, provocative Soapbox; and Sacred Cow, in which a guest writer vents, humorously, about something that bugs them in arts and culture. Reviews- Our experienced critics appraise concerts, operas and plays around the country including Opera Australia's production of Halevy's La Juive, The Rite of Spring conducted by Asher Fisch at West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and the musical 9 to 5. On Air and Online- We preview livestreams, cinema screenings, digital events and radio highlights to check out this month.

Independent and informed, Limelight offers Australia's best coverage of music, opera, theatre, dance, arts and culture at home and abroad. Originally published as 24 hours by the ABC over 40 years ago, Limelight is wellestablished as Australia's leading arts publication. It now offers a fresh, newlook magazine with more in-depth, analytical and literary articles.