All posts tagged "2019 Adelaide Fringe"

Fringe Review: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir: Earthalujah!

We enter the ecclesiastical gloom of the Bonython Hall. Dim blue lights glow from the far-off stage. As is only proper, the choir processes into the venue.  We hear them behind us, singing a segment of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, as they make their way to the stage. They sound great, although the words seem unfamiliar. Banners, carried by two children, proclaim “Stop Shopping: Earthalujah!”

Fringe Review: Fiona O’Loughlin – Gap Year

Not so much a punchline gig, more so like sitting with a friend over a glass of wine and talking trivially about the trials and tribulations of life.

Fringe Review: Boys in the Band presents: Jukebox Revolution

Opening with the Four Seasons classic Oh What a Night, the Boys in the Band let the audience know what they were in for!

Fringe Review: A Murder Most Foul: Murder Mystery in the Sky

Aboard the Airship Adelaide, murder is afoot and the race is on to see who can solve the crime.

Fringe Review: Guru Dudu’s Silent Disco Walking Tours

The silent disco goes mobile as participants sing and dance along Rundle Mall, but only they can hear the music!

Fringe Review: Greg Fleet: This is not a love song

A man wandering through his memories, trying in his own way to change the past but knowing the result will be the same. He makes excuses, he explains, but he knows that the past is past, the only thing that changes is the way we view it.

Fringe Review: Just Desserts – Adults Only Tasting

Just Desserts- Adults Only Tasting is Michelle Pearson’s second show for this Adelaide Fringe season and it is simply delicious. Turning many well known ballads into her own, Michelle takes you through a journey of empowerment and a tantalising sugar rush.

Fringe Review: Odette: Baby Daddy!

Odette dances with a mop, has a conversation with a picture or two, re-enacts a couple of scenes from The Bold and the Beautiful, has a confrontation with the father of her baby, turns the audience into ducks, frogs and other assorted critters and genuinely surprises us at every turn

Fringe Review: 19Adele25

Fringe Review: Atten-borrow, the Lecture Tour

Sir David regales us with many interesting facts (and a little fiction) about the world's fauna and Mankind (Australians in particular)

Fringe Review: Alice Springs Comedy Showcase

Alice Springs Comedy Showcase brings to the Fringe Simon Cheers, Chris Little, Amna Bee and Prince Pout III, all the way from the red centre for an early evening laugh at the Griffins Hotel.

Fringe Review: Gym Junkie

Fringe Review: Friendlyjordies presents – Why John Howard REALLY sucked

YouTuber and stand up comedian Jordan Shanks returns to Adelaide with his sold out show, Why John Howard REALLY sucked. Upon leaving you might end up thinking, well, he's not wrong.

Fringe Review: Adam Page and Tim Bennett

Adam Page is the musician’s musician. The ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist pops up in myriad genres and combos, including orchestral, band and  solo work. His Fringe shows are consistently popular, but this year, instead of his usual one-man offering, he is bringing an extra man in the guise of Tim Bennett.

Fringe Review: Totally Plucked

Simon Wright brings a new sense of comedy and physical theatre to the Bally at Gluttony for his Adelaide Fringe show Totally Plucked.

Fringe Review: 2100: A Space Novelty

The year is 2100. The Earth has been entirely obliterated and Humankind along with it - except for one man, American Astronaut Captain James Briggs. Thus begins Cut Mustard's space opera/odyssey 2100: A Space Novelty

Fringe Review: Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)

Should you be looking for Fringe entertainment which considers biochemistry, neuroanatomy, the effects of neurotransmitters, and why loneliness can kill, this is your show. 

Fringe Review: Dolly Di*mond’s Bl*nkety Bl*nks

From the moment Dolly Diamond strides out onto the stage clad from head to toe in a glittering black sequined dress, balancing elegantly on stylish black sequined follow me homes and the most beautifully crafted wig al la Marilyn to the strains of Love Is In The Air you know you’re in for a great hour of entertainment.

Fringe Review: Which-craft?

The ideas behind Which-craft? are brimming over with possibilities to satirise the now somewhat stale ideas we are offered on, the misnamed, ‘Reality TV’.

Fringe Review: Jack Tucker – Comedy Standup Hour

American clown Zach Zucker has changed into Jack Tucker, world's worst stand-up comedian for this year's Fringe