7 Jan 2024
Miss Saigon: Love And Heartbreak In A World Consumed By War ~ Theatre Review
Miss Saigon Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. Fri 5 Jan, 2024.
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19 Nov 2023
Welcome To Your New Life – State Theatre Company Review
It’s a challenge to take a basic human ritual, turn it into a work of art, and offer new perspectives on that ritual. Welcome to Your New Life is only partly…
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…
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…
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…
30 July 2023
Proud ~ Theatre Review – Dangers of the Far Right
Being proud of our country is not only one thing. It takes many forms, from jingoism to that extreme now called ‘right.’ Yes, the very word ‘right’ is hostage…