5 Mar 2025
Scout Boxhall: God’s Favourite ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
I too have a predilection for nuns, so I was always going to like Scout Boxall’s God’s Favourite. This show surpassed all my wildest (or should I say devout-est…
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4 Mar 2025
Elixir Revived: Putting The Variety Into Variety ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Let me begin with a list of Elixir’s achievements, in no specific order:
4 Mar 2025
Ten Thousand Hours: Gravity And Other Myths Still Doing It Best ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
For those of us less flexible and more earth-bound, watching circus can push the very limits of our muscular empathy. At a certain point, I just cannot imagine…
3 Mar 2025
Kirsty Mann: Skeletons… In The Doctor’s Closet? ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
While being a clown doctor is a very admirable pursuit, apparently being a clown AND a doctor is a little trickier. People who know you as one don’t believe you…
2 Mar 2025
Meg In The Magic Toyshop: Where All The Children Want To Play ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Merilyn Greer wrote the show and engagingly performs the central role of Meg – a toy doll who is looking for a lost glove. Her friend Penny The Toy Soldier…
1 Mar 2025
An Evening Without Kate Bush: Songs From The Bush ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
After a successful 2024 Fringe, winning rave reviews and two awards, Sarah-Louise Young is back weaving magic and enchantment. Welcome to the church of Kate.
1 Mar 2025
Brains Balls & Banter; Spoken Word Poetry: Slamming Down The Word ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Tracey O’Callaghan has been a regular on the Adelaide spoken word poetry scene for seven years now. Jumping in the deep end, she was a South Australian State…
1 Mar 2025
Psychopomp: Everyone Needs A Guide Through Life ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Psychopomp cleverly turns the tables and puts the spotlight right on the audience, in a playful manner, inviting them to tell their own story. This is a play…
1 Mar 2025
YOAH: Taking Circus To New Heights ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
[CIRCUS/Physical Theatre ~ JAPAN] YOAH The Moa at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Fri 28 Feb, 2025.
28 Feb 2025
Chicken: It’s A Poultry Life ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Kudos to Eva O’Connor for taking this all the way. I can only imagine how O’Connor and long-time collaborator Hildegard Ryan arrived at this one-bird show.…
28 Feb 2025
Dave Clark Folk Singer Concert: Life Is A Musical Journey ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Interview
The following is based on an interview conducted with Dave Clark by Clayton Werner and myself on Songcatcher on Radio Adelaide on Mon 10 Feb, 2025.
28 Feb 2025
Helios: A Modern Retelling Of A Greek Myth ~ Adelaide Fringe 2025 Review
Our poet chronicler for the night, Alexander Wright, enters the stage, a yurt with bamboo rafters secured with rows of neat red ribbon bows. A laptop atop a…