Ladies in Black review: a light show, but full of evolving feeling
Lyric theatre, SydneyMusical by Carolyn Burns and Tim Finn, based on Madeleine St John's 1993 novel, studies mid-century women working in fictional department storeMid-century Australia: a time when men were gruff, women could work (but only until they had children, and forget about going to university), and post-war European immigrants and refugees were finding new homes, and new ways of life, in the antipodes.And, …