111 stories by "Mick Searles"
SuperEverything is true to its name in that it is a multi-media event. Described as "live cinema" the show is oddly reminiscent of the silent film era. The audience is greeted with a scrim f…
Meeting with Bodhisattva is entertaining and challenging but above all it is ethereal theatre at it's otherworldly best. While the dancers and musicians are entertaining with their precision…
Ontosoroh is a work of song, music and dance based on the Nyai Ontosoroh character in Indonesian Author Pramoedya Ananta Toer's historical novel This Earth of Mankind. The novel incorporates…
The Artistic team of Not According To Plan – Leigh Warren, Khai Liew, Alistair Trung, Jerome Kugan, Geoff Cobham and Helen Fuller come together with an artistic brilliance equalled onl…
The OzAsia Festival kicked off this week and Aussie Theatre takes a look at the best of the 2013 Programme " 5 shows you shouldn't miss! Meeting with Bodhisattva A spiritual journey, in the …
Artistic Director David Sefton has released a teaser of his 2014 Adelaide Festival Programme. Roman Tragedies, a six-hour long multimedia concoction of three of William Shakespeare’s p…
Stomp '13 is a boomer of a show. The energy, the rhythm, the sound and the choreography combine to delight each and every audience member. The roots of Stomp '13 can be traced back to 1983 w…
Almost everything about the State Theatre Company of South Australia's Babyteeth is new except the subject matter. Cancer is heavy going at any time but when it's terminal in a 14-year-old g…
Happy As Larry is an energetic, playful and sophisticated exploration (at times an exposé) of what it means to be a child, channelled through the art of dance. The audience enters while a c…
Each person who walks into the auditorium of The Odeon Theatre and lays eyes on the stage is immediately struck at just how big it is. The implication is the audience is about to witness the…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a rip-snorting comedy of histrionic extravagance. It's William Shakespeare meets the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which ma…
The most revolutionary thing about Ballet Revolución is in its philosophy on dance: forget the history, the traditional and modern theories, and the techniques; just sit back and enjoy it…
William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors is a complicated farce which stands the test of time. Despite retaining much of the dated language from this early Shakespearian work, the State Th…
Michelle Nightingale's Born To Run played to a sold-out audience in the Artspace Theatre, despite being programmed on the same night at the same time as a one-off performance by Martha Wainw…
Phil Scott crawls onto the stage as a shipwrecked sailor might crawl onto a beach looking around in awe saying, 'I Survived'. ÂÂ Only, Scott is wearing aviator glasses, a beanie and ca…
We have no choice over how we are born, and the choice as to how and when we die is still not generally in our own hands. Call it assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia, it's still a crime…
Lady Rizo (Amelia Zirin-Brown, a Grammy award winning Diva) is guaranteed to energise and entertain those punters starting to feel "Festivaled out" during the final week of the 2013 Adelaide…
To say Barb Jungr is a second string Marianne Faithfull isn't quite fair but she really does have the moves like Jagger. If Jungr ever grows tired of performing live she could always make a …
Jose Carbo, known in Adelaide for his State Opera Figaro and a scene stealing spot at the Christmas Proms opened his latin heart with the music of his native Argentina in a tribute to that m…
Baby et Lulu, a couple of unabashed Francophile chanteuses, put on a show that leaves their audience feeling as refreshed as a bottle of sweet white wine rather than Cabaret's standard night…
The superlative adjectives used to describe Bernadette Robinson, her voice, her shows and her ability to engage and entertain an audience have been flying around for years now " Â and she …
She might look like Elvira with an undercut but close your eyes and there are times when Joey Arias will take you straight back to the smoky Jazz 'n Blues of Billie Holiday. Arias on Holiday…
Robyn Archer began her career as a cabaret singer at the opening of Adelaide's Space Theatre in Brecht and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins in 1974. Her international career as a performer and fest…
When Jacques Brel died in 1978 at the age of 49 he left behind a body of work whose influence extends far beyond any barriers of genre, culture or age. Still, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival's…
Christine Johnston, best known as one of the three Kransky Sisters, brings her latest oddball venture, RRAMP, to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Songs, dances, animation and more are all deli…
