Time for a quick glance over my shoulder at the passing year. Culturally it was busy enough but with little that was truly memorable. There was, however, a vintage week in early August in Sydney when the Opera company opened a really excellent new production of The Marriage of Figaro; two nights later at the Sydney Theatre Company Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh opened in The Present by Chekhov and Andrew Upton.
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