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Monday, April 8, 2013

2013 Adelaide Festival Round-up by Mick Searles

David Sefton’s first Adelaide Festival recently concluded as an artistic, box-office and personal success for the new Artistic Director. 2013 also marked the first time the Adelaide Festiv…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:30PM
Sunday, April 7, 2013

2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Launch by Mick Searles

Kate Ceberano released a little of her positive energy to an appreciative audience at The Festival Centre last night with her launch of the 2013 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Programme. Molly Ri…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:16AM
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Adelaide Festival: Flamenco Hoy by Mick Searles

For most South Australians an evening of flamenco — and we have fine singers, guitarists and dancers here with regular contact with Spain — is a bare stage, some guitars, and percussion …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PM
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Adelaide Festival: Nosferatu by Mick Searles

The final theatrical production of the 2013 Adelaide Festival was the Warsaw based TR Warszawa Company’s production of Nosferatu, adapted and directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna. The play was per…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PM
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Adelaide Festival: 6000 miles away by Mick Searles

Finally, a chance to see what all the fuss is about. Sylvie Guillem, prima ballerina assoluta, and the darling of the world’s greatest contemporary choreographers, comes to Adelaide in a t…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:50PM
Monday, March 18, 2013

Adelaide Festival: Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage by Mick Searles

Beowulf, was originally written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries as an epic Anglo-Saxon poem. Jason Craig’s incarnation; Beowulf – A Thousand Years Of Baggage, makes its Austr…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PM
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: Sell Out Tour by Mick Searles

Sell Out Tour is an absurdist comedy incorporating aspects of surrealism and physical theatre. The show originated from street theatre performances and developed into the more traditional pr…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:10AM

Adelaide Fringe: Ethan Addie Rookie Mistakes by Mick Searles

Look Mum, I said “F***” in public lots of times, and anyway, I’m gay so there! Billed as gay comedy for the masses, this is much more gay comedy (such as it is) for the gays. Ethan is …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:58AM
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Adelaide Festival — 2001: A Space Odyssey by Mick Searles

Forty five years on, it still fascinates, and holds up as a real classic.  Stanley Kubrick’s epic film is a work of genius by a man far ahead of his time. Combined with the 96 piece Adela…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:44PM
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Adelaide Festival: What the Body Does Not Remember by Mick Searles

What the Body Does Not Remember, essentially the debut work of the choreographer and the company Ultima Vez, established Belgian choreographer Wim Vanderkeybus as a major force when it was f…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM

Adelaide Festival – Brasslands: Clogs by Mick Searles

Clogs (featuring Padma Newsome,  Aaron and Bryce Dessner) is a concert of new music featuring three Australian premieres, which should have been better attended, and perhaps more clearly pr…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30AM
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Adelaide Festival: The Kreutzer Sonata — A Subtle Beauty by Mick Searles

Named after Beethoven’s own ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, Tolstoy’s novella was first published in 1889 only to be immediately censored by the Tsarist government. It was even banned from being …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:30PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: The Blues Brothers Rhythm & Blues Revue by Mick Searles

Built in 1934 and designed by the Architecture firm then known as Woods, Bagot, Laybourne Smith & Irwin in the Classical Revival and Beaux Arts style, the former AMP building at 21 King …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:15PM
Monday, March 4, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: Puppetry Of The Penis by Mick Searles

This has got to be the strangest piece of Theatre I have ever experienced. It is bold, it is brazen, it is brash, it is ballsy, and it’s funny – or is it laughable? Two young blokes unas…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:56PM

Adelaide Festival: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by Mick Searles

A bar in Adelaide’s German Club is the setting for the National Theatre Of Scotland’s production of The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart. It begins innocuously enough as all 5 cast memb…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00AM
Thursday, February 28, 2013

A masterful story teller — Guy Masterson’s Animal Farm at Adelaide Fringe by Mick Searles

Guy Masterson’s genius lies in his ability to simplify theatre. To make it accessible and enjoyable. Who could imagine Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show before Masterson? So a…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:15AM
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: I Am My Own Wife by Mick Searles

Pamela Munt’s enterprising Bakehouse Theatre plays host to Doug Wright’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning show I Am My Own Wife in its intimate Studio theatre. While much has been made of…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:20AM
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe by Mick Searles

Reverb Theatre’s presentation of an abbreviated version of Eric Coble’s Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe is a generally good amateur production. It’s a family friendly play and a number …

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:04PM
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Adelaide Fringe: Groucho at home in the beautiful Capri Theatre by Mick Searles

A modest audience saw Adelaide’s wonderful Capri Theatre offer the perfect setting for Groucho, an 80-minute play about the life and times of the inimitable Groucho Marx. Dennis Manahan ha…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:22PM
Friday, January 25, 2013

South Australian youth theatre wins hearts around the world by Mick Searles

South Australian youth theatre companies impress at the 2013 International Performing Arts for Youth showcase, with US and UK engagements secured and a coveted award won. The 2013 Internatio…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

This Dame ain’t no drag! Eat Pray Laugh in Adelaide by Mick Searles

Barry Humphries has been treading the boards for 58 years. In those years Humphries has also accumulated a string of awards including an AO in 1982 for his services to theatre and a CBE in 2…

SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:33AM

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