

Palmer was generous with herself and the audience and at her strongest when performing solo or with fellow musicians Zoe Keating and Lyndon Chester.

There’s something a little David Lynch about being serenaded by Carpenters’ classics in the plush red Studio at the Opera House.




I turned up to the State Theatre for Wind of Shaolin with no idea what to expect. Physical feats that induce involuntary gasps of disbelief were kind of what I was hoping for.