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An unmistakable glow of greatness

Drop everything and marvel at <i>Night on Bald Mountain</i>

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

It’s been a couple of decades since the country saw Neil Armfield direct Essie Davis in Night on Bald Mountain and that was within a few years of Patrick White’s death and his work with the director in the latter part of his life. If Matthew Lutton’s wobbly and incoherent production proves nothing else, it is that Bald Mountain is White’s best play.

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