Royal Croquet Club, Adelaide Fringe festivalKimmings and partner Tim Grayburn have made a darkly funny, beautifully painful show which takes as much care of its audience as its subject matte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMSpace theatre, Adelaide festivalSilvia Gallerano is utterly compelling in this one hour stream of consciousness about a woman who unapologetically takes up space in the world Continue readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AMAdelaide Festival theatre, Adelaide festivalAurélien Bory and the artists of Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger dance with illusion and politics in this intense showcase of circus skill Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41AMFrom late night fringe Shakespeare where the actors get progressively drunker throughout the performance to Umit Bali, former illegal immigrant turned stand-up, here are the shows you won’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13PMOn the eve of the fringe we round up five festival hotspots, from the evergreen Garden of Earthly Delights to part-club, part-installation Surrender Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50PMWith a new version of the James Joyce classic in development, epically long theatre is back on the menu again – are you in for the long haul? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56AMDunstan Playhouse, AdelaideNescha Jelk rips away from the familliar story of racism and jealousy, using Shakespeare’s script to explore a masculinity that thrusts violence among men – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMWaterside, Port Adelaide While the press focuses on conservative politics and religion, David Williams amplifies a variety of Christian voices in this subtly devised verbatim show Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThis is Not Art, Newcastle, NSWThis festival of new performance in a gutted department store offered audiences a taster of new talent along with their toasties Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11AMAdelaide Festival TheatreGiant legs, bunny-hops and a fist pump bring out the surreal hilarity in the fairytale but the dancers are never outshone There is little about Alexei Ratmanskys Ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMLawler Studio, Neon festival, MelbourneMelbourne's leading independent theatre festival stages a high glitz and high camp adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons In 2013, Neon took Melbourne's thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15AMDunstan Playhouse, AdelaideA play about bullying comes across like a stage version of Mean Girls, and will resonate strongly with its young audienceJesikah (Kate Cheel) and Denise (Elizabeth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56AMNext Wave festival, Footscray Community Arts Centre, MelbourneThough plagued by technical issues, this powerful piece brings a new voice to dance Carly Sheppard stands under a spotlight. Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMNext Wave festival, fourtyfivedownstairs, MelbourneHex is a powerful work that looks at the Aids crisis from a generation away, and explores its legacy and impactJames Welsby was born the sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19AMNext Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneA Belgian company's attempt to create a real-life fight club causes more embarrassment than insurrectionary fervour They tell us the whole story: Bel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMNext Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneA dancer and a bodybuilder run in circles around a stage in a show about the pleasure and pain of physical exertionDancer Natalie Abbott and bodybuil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57AMNext Wave festival, Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneFluctuating between poetry, drama and physical theatre, this play needs to show rather than tellIn a small Australian town, young men Sean (Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMNext Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneSet in a stylised version of the future, this show may be loud and fast, but its overall meaning is confused Madonna Arms, from theatre company Im Tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15AMNext Wave festival, Theatre Works, MelbourneTold by a radio producer taking the stage for the first time, the story of the Palestinian translator linked to the Munich massacre is gripping, e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMAdelaide festival: Her Majesty’s TheatreThis work combining snippets of Coleridge’s text with songs from The Tiger Lillies and film from Mark Holthusen is less than the sum of its partsJ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32AMFrom love in a dark, sad time to a contemporary take on sex in this final instalment of our fringe diary for 2014. Plus: how an audience can make a show so much more special Jane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AMHumorous take on a particularly strange group of staff, guests and callers at a community radio productionJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44AMA genuinely quite extraordinary puppet show; Stella gets confronting; and the lads are just unfunnyJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMWe bump into Festival Freak, watch two women and a Tasmanian tiger, and listen to stories on a Torrens cruiseJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29AMAdelaide Fringe festival: The German ClubThe audience gets its chance to connect with events of the day in this show that delivers with humour and warmthJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21PMA Canadian circus show that’s just kidding around; blindfolded women with washing gloves on their feet; and a magician for drunksJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31PMA female boxer fights for her place in the Olympics in this fearless one-woman show that lands plenty of emotional punchesJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35AMAerial stunts take over the streets; an Italian classic gets a theatrical makeover; and 45 minutes of uproarious clowningJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21AMSwinging a mallet at the Croquet Club; hula hoops and paper umbrellas – and, to finish the night, strip-skippingJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMFloating storytelling, a one-lady rape comedy and Spiegeltent glitz – you’re sure to find something you like at the FringeJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53PMAs she gets set to play her ninth Mardi Gras, Australian comic Caroline Reid tells Jane Howard about camp, being offensive – and having to compete with GrindrJane Howard
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