A Christmas Carol at the Comedy Theatre; Franz Ferdinand Live at the Gardens; Adrian Sherriff’s Kalachakra at The JazzLab; Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines at Theatre Works; Mirra – Norwegian Tradition Reimagined at the Melbourne Recital Centre

A Christmas Carol at the Comedy Theatre; Franz Ferdinand Live at the Gardens; Adrian Sherriff’s Kalachakra at The JazzLab; Nihilistic Optimism on Trampolines at Theatre Works; Mirra – Norwegian Tradition Reimagined at the Melbourne Recital Centre

Yet somehow the act of reassertion in the face of a historical erasure (Percy Shelley was originally credited as the author of Frankenstein) doesn’t go all-in.LoadingThe climax is shadowy and…