26 Oct 2023
I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron ~ OzAsia Review
I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron is essentially performance poetry. Ngo King Kie has put the poems of Xu Lizhi to music in a sombre, sometimes bleak, sometimes…
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25 Oct 2023
1988 ~ OzAsia Festival ~ Music Review
1988 was a big year for Australia. White Australia celebrated its bicentenary. It was also a big year for Dung Nguyen. He emigrated from Vietnam to join his…
23 Oct 2023
Mother Tongue, MotherLand – OzAsia Music Review
The title of today’s performance at Nexus Arts alerts us to the overriding themes of longing, dislocation, home and mothering. Four acclaimed jazz and…
21 Oct 2023
Reds – Star Theatres ~ Calling All Redheads!
Bronwen James gives her impeccable singing voice full flight in this fabulously entertaining show. The songs are a mix of clever parodies and originals…
20 Oct 2023
Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream – OzAsia Review
Starting with a nightmare where the echoes answer back, what appears to be a simple, almost innocent story grows into a saga of epic proportions. Although the…
15 Oct 2023
Ink: Adelaide University Theatre Guild ~ Review
There’s a sadness about this work from James Graham. Many of the ideas behind Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper seemed quite acceptable. Socialist even. “Give…
12 Oct 2023
Emily Steel’s The Garden ~ Space Theatre ~ Review
Emily Steel’s new script is deceptively mundane, as she distils the big questions of life down into everyday language, grounded in the soil of a community…
28 Sept 2023
All the Things I Couldn’t Say ~ Rumpus Theatre Review
All the Things I Couldn’t Say Rumpus Theatre, Flinders Drama Centre Wednesday 27 Sep 2023
28 Sept 2023
The Dictionary of Lost Words ~ State Theatre Company ~ Review
At first pass the tale of a young woman growing up dreaming of being a lexicographer may not present as a ripping yarn. But courtesy of some astute direction…
5 Sept 2023
Muse Fest ~ A Deal With God: The Songs of Kate Bush
Shakespeare is credited with contributing a swag of new words to our language, and many new sayings. Kate Bush has her own ‘encyclopedia’ website, such is the…
31 Aug 2023
Theatre Review ~ Lady Day ~ The Story of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is often associated with the tag ‘the lady sings the blues’ after the film depicting her life from 1972. Holiday herself saw things as more…
13 Aug 2023
Review ~ Kissing the Witch ~ Adelaide University Theatre Guild
The capacity crowd at the Little Theatre took their seats with the whole cast already assembled on stage milling around out of character chatting with each…