Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Showtime starts with some weak jokes and good ball-in-the-mouth tricks from the MC, but weak jokes are ok in this case. He endears himself to us fast, with his kooky nature and country homeb…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:25AMMonday, February 29, 2016
This is fine theatre with an excellent script by Donal O’Kelly and wonderful performances by O’Kelly and Sorcha Fox. Ok – enough said! Go and see it! That’s my review! No – but se…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:43PMThursday, February 25, 2016
This show is one of the top class circus / music shows getting around. And as I said last time I saw (and reviewed) one – there are so many now that given the in fashion genre, one has to …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:30PMIt took me a little while to fall fully into this finely crafted work by Gary McNair, but that’s not such a bad thing in theatre. Sometimes a good piece slowly moves over you and you becom…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:37PMMonday, January 4, 2016
Club Swizzle is the latest circus/cabaret show from the team behind La Soirée and La Clique. It uses the (well-worn) recipe of sexy circus with other acts, in a variety show format. Audienc…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:41PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Michael Griffiths brings his show to Feast after a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show won a 2014 award as best Cabaret in the Adelaide Fringe. Griffiths enters 30 minutes late …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:22AMSaturday, November 28, 2015
Amelia Ryan starts off her show by bumbling on to the stage in a towel, and getting a couple of audience members to help her change into her first set of clothes. She shares that her life ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:55AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Not long after this show began, I thought to myself, I hope the programme has lots of information; not because I was feeling lazy, but because (to be honest) I didn’t really know what was …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:21AMThursday, October 1, 2015
We know that we are in for a different kind of ride, when we are asked to take our shoes off, wear flimsy disposable thongs and a plastic waterproof poncho, and check our shoes in. Mm… ok,…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:58PMFriday, June 12, 2015
Tex Perkins is well-known from the ’80s & ’90s re: The Beasts of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea and then the fun cover band, Ladyboyz. He’s now doing his stuff with The Dark Horses…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:43PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Paris Combo has been around for years, and it’s not hard to see why; or why they are so well-travelled internationally, and usually sell out. Front woman vocalist Belle du Berry tells us t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:44PMThursday, March 12, 2015
There is nothing like falling into a great fairy-tale, and we have a real beauty here, and it’s about as manic, moving and mischievous as it can get. American burlesque star, Julie Atl…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:28PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
In this gently rambling poetic hour and a bit, actor Bob Kingdom is Dylan Thomas. He doesn’t move around the space much, nor does his take on Dylan’s poems, anecdotes and short stories m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:35PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Nufonia Must Fall is a clever, engaging fusion of film making, puppetry, live music and DJ mixing. It is a complex multi genre production that tells the moving story of how an out-dated robo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:56AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
What a great take on Jack and the Beanstalk. Deliciously dark and a touch chilling, it dines out on the drama in this classic kid’s tale, holding the children in the palm of its hand, from…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:34PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
riverrun was inspired a few years ago by a Bloomsday reading of the final page of James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegan’s Wake. Olwen Fouere (who did the reading in Australia) has adapted t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:22PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Flying Dreams starts in an odd kind of way, with the audience pushed into singing along to a George Michael song (though I’m not quite sure why). But we leave all that behind quickly (than…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:30AMThursday, February 19, 2015
“Welcome to Wonderland,” The Fringe guide says and it’s not wrong; Velvet is a wonderful wonderland. We enter an extravagant, slightly seedy disco and let our inhibitions fall away. We…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:58PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Blood At The Root is inspired by the true story of six black teenagers being charged with attempted murder after a school yard fight and bashing of a white kid. It is essentially a play abou…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:22PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Papillon was a big Fringe winner last year. And looking at the massive line up at the door and packed to the brim house at the show I was at, it could be a big winner with audiences this yea…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:25PMMonday, February 16, 2015
Placing SOAP into any genre (or section of The Fringe Guide) certainly won’t wash with me; it can fit into any of them, all of them! It’s a fantastic fusion of cabaret, circus, dance, mu…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:59PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Who doesn’t like a bit of magic? It amazes us no end and makes us think hard about how the heck they do it! This slick and stylish show brings together some of the world’s best illusioni…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:55PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Michael Jackson’s genius spanned four decades, inspired countless artists, and saw him become the biggest record seller of all time, with Thriller. It was only a matter of time after his s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:50AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Anticipation from the packed audience at the Swingin’ Christmas Proms was such that, at the beginning of the show, a raised hand from one of the clowns hushed the crowd immediately. And th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:14PMMonday, September 8, 2014
The programme says “be captured by a sense of wonder” and I was, totally and so much more. From the award-winning Shandong Acrobatic Troupe, this show is based on a classic Qing Dynasty …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:29AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Cranky Bear is based upon the book – The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland. Patch Theatre Company has created a (kind of) cabaret style show from the book, which (to cut a kids story short) i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:59PMThursday, July 31, 2014
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of Oscar Wilde’s last plays, and his most produced. It has stood the test of time as its themes which stream forth from the ridiculous nature of look…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:06PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
The thing that I like most about this “Theatre Beating” show and the way that it unfolds is that the kids get it, entirely. They are laughing and saying their own stuff with the show fro…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:43PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
After just a few moments in the tiny fringe venue it’s pretty clear that this show is in Rhyming verse. Oh no, here we go (again)! I’ve seen a few in that genre this year. And for me r…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:47AMSunday, March 9, 2014
I must admit that I was a bit sceptical about seeing this show, given that I’m a huge fan of the 1970s film and also of the original book. I wondered, how the hell Yabba Productions could …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AMThursday, March 6, 2014
The great epic poem An Iliad has been re-told many times throughout the centuries. Actor, Denis O’Hare and Director Lisa Peterson decided (not long after the USA invaded Iraq) that a curre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:26PM 
