111 stories by "Mick Searles"
An extremely influential towering figure of 20th century literature, Samuel Beckett has challenged recent generations of students, actors and theatre directors, but nobody would ever say tha…
Delicate, rich, genteel, were all words which immediately came to mind the moment this extremely talented and accomplished band started playing on their period instruments, with the majority…
Is it physical theatre? Is it Dance? Is it circus? Whatever it is, it is extraordinary, weird, wonderful and mesmerising, and quite beautiful. And it's perfect as an opening gambit for a Fes…
Tommy was first conceived and recorded by the 23 year old Pete Townshend in 1968. It has now been re-conceived as a gender-bending Jazz explosion by Eric Mingus in a world premiere productio…
Adelaide's Brink Productions, in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre, will bring Nobel Laureate Patrick White's short story Down at the Dump, from his 1964 collection The Burnt One…
My Fair Lady is not only the best Musical that came out of the fifties, but is justifiably promoted as "The Musical of Musicals". Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, it has beautif…
To a capacity crowd in the William Magarey room of the re-developed Adelaide Oval David Sefton revealed his programme for the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts, his third as Artistic Director. …
From The Dunstan Playhouse's stage, adorned with Victorian era dresses, the Brookman boys (CEO Rob and his son Artistic Director Geordie) revealed the State Theatre Company of South Australi…
This piece is an absolute theatrical gem. It is also a piece that could never be done justice by any other medium than live theatre. Set in Sophiatown, a South African shanty town near Johan…
Two iconic characters, Peter Pan and Alice (of Wonderland and Looking Glass fame) were both based on real children by their respective authors, J.M.Barrie and Lewis Carroll. The prototypes f…
The Oracle marks Meryl Tankard's triumphant return to Adelaide after a 16-year absence. Performed by Paul White to Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, The Oracle really is high-end High art. Th…
The Oracle marks Meryl Tankard's triumphant return to Adelaide after a 16-year absence. Performed by Paul White to Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, The Oracle really is high-end High art. Th…
The ’70s and ’80s may not be the pinnacle of pop music, but much of its legacy still has some real appeal. Some who were there then may not remember much of it, but there were pl…
Little Bird is a family affair. The writer is married to the director who in turn is the State Theatre Company of SA's CEO's son as well as being the brother of an Adelaide Cabaret Festival …
It is a considerable challenge to adapt any novel by Comedy/Fantasy/sci-fi writer Sir Terry Pratchett to the stage, and perhaps even moreso to direct and produce it. Pamela Munt and The Unse…
South Australian children's theatre company Patch Theatre recently announced the appointment of Thom Browning as their third (and final) Associate Director in Residence. Mr Browning will spe…
This is an extraordinary and extremely important piece of theatre. Movingly and chillingly portrayed by four seasoned professional actors and twelve returned service personnel, this remarkab…
From the youth of Melbourne comes a vibrant show which surely must be one of the highlights of The 2014 Adelaide Fringe. This vibrant, enthusiastic young troupe fills the theatre with its en…
Israel's Batsheva Dance Company were last in Adelaide to present two stunning works, Anaphase and Mabul, as part of Barrie Kosky's groundbreaking 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts, so their ret…
Three political plays, hundreds of years old, one following the next with a running time of around 6 hours performed in throaty Dutch with English surtitles is " in a word; engrossing. Tonee…
Choreographer Shaun Parker's latest offering AM I takes its audience on a didactic journey from a time pre-Big Bang to somewhere post-Apocalypse. All the while trying to explain everything h…
After fizzling out in 2013 with the deplorable Maggie Stone, The State Theatre Company of South Australia opens 2014 with a bang " Anton Chekhov's sublime tragicomedy The Seagull. Chekhov is…
Written by James Cunningham, The Sheds is about a gay AFL footballer and the effect his public coming-out has on the club he plays for (The Fitzroy Fighters), his teammates and his best frie…
John Doyle knows his target audience very well indeed (he's one of them) and hits a bull's-eye with his new play Vere (Faith). Ground-breaking sociologist Max Weber defines the upper middle …
East of Berlin is a psychological drama written by Canadian Playwright Hannah Moscovitch (her first full-length play, at the age of 29) in 2007. Running for 80 minutes without an interval, t…
