Posts By CJ McLean
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1.4KEntertainmentTheatre Review: The Gods of Strangers
This play is nothing short of a triumph, full of people who’ve been left off the stage for too long, and a...
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529EntertainmentFeast Festival Review: The Dykeside – Two Left
Feast Festival’s comedy line up has come to Raj House with The Dykeside – Two Left.
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2.4KEntertainmentInterview: Dina Panozzo
She’s best known for roles in Carla Cametti PD, A Fistful of Flies and Packed to the Rafters—now Dina Panozzo is getting...
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765ArtsTheatre Review: Faith Healer
Three characters take to the stage to recall their time travelling through the backwaters of Wales, England, Scotland, trying and sometimes succeeding...
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855ArtsTheatre Review: Welcome the Bright World
Quantum physics, geo-politics and teen rebellion crash headlong into one another in House of Sand’s Welcome the Bright World, an Umbrella production...
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724ArtsInterview: Charles Sanders – Director of House Of Sand’s Welcome The Bright World
CJ McLean sits down with Welcome the Bright World director Charles Sanders, ahead of the upcoming House Of Sand production in collaboration...
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Amphibian
Students Hassan and Chloe are put on detention—one has been suspected of stealing their teacher’s money, and it’s up to them to...
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923ArtsTheatre Review: That Eye, The Sky
Wonder and the search for meaning—two things that make life beautiful, and maddening. Tim Winton’s That Eye, The Sky encapsulates this beautifully,...
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881ArtsInterview: Tim Winton, Acclaimed Australian Author
An interview with Tim Winton about State Theatre Company’s production of That Eye, The Sky quickly turns to religion, unexamined privilege, environmentalism,...
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715ArtsTheatre Review: Creditors
A holiday resort in the bush, on the edge of an infinity pool, seems to be the most tranquil place in the...
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728ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Patti LuPone – Don’t Monkey with Broadway
Patti LuPone propels into Don’t Monkey with Broadway, a song that reflects back on the iconic strip with love, and turns to...
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600ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Sunglasses at Night: the 80s Apocalypse Sing Along Cabaret
Sunglasses at Night is high-level entertainment, from the motley collection of 80s hits you thought you knew (I am still surprised that...
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832ArtsTheatre Review: Sense & Sensibility
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” Jane Austen’s infamous words find new meaning in the State...
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991Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Deviant Women: Madame Blavatsky
The second of two live performances, this show explores the shadowy figure of Madame Blavatsky, a Russian-born spiritualist who founded theosophy and...
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484Adelaide FestivalFestival Review: Perfume Genius
Iowa-born Mike Hadreas—alias Perfume Genius—oozed sex appeal and cool confidence in a dreamily executed performance last night at the Riverbank Palais
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761Adelaide FestivalFestival Review: Memorial
Homer’s The Iliad is, above its poetry and deep influence upon Western arts and literature, bloody. After all, this is the story...
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899Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Kitty Flanagan – Smashing
Here are some of the topics Flanagan gets through in her show. Sex. Reality TV. Cleaners. Porn. Honey where there shouldn’t be...
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684Adelaide FestivalFestival Review: Grace Jones
Icon Grace Jones opened the 2018 Adelaide Festival with a once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-forgotten spectacular
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427Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Intoxication
there is no room to hide in this one-man autobiography, as writer Christopher Bryant takes his audience through his personal story that...
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1.8KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Heathers the Musical
Fans of the original 80s teen flick will not disappoint in this musical update, which features all of the violent fun with...
