All posts tagged "Dunstan Playhouse"
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909ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Archie Roach and Tiddas – Dancing With My Spirit
This show is all about country, self, friendship and the sublime voices of Archie Roach and Tiddas.
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772ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Sven Ratzke – Homme Fatale
Ladies and gentlemen, he’s back! The saucy European cabaret star, Sven Ratzke, returns to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to present audiences with the many mischievous pleasures of his new show, Homme Fatale.
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865ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Yma Sumac
From a young girl on the mountain-sides of Peru to a Beverly Hills recluse, Peruvian songbird, Yma Sumac, is introduced to the audience through famed Australian singer, Ali McGregor.
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852ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Mark Holden’s Greatest Show on Earth
Mark Holden has had a long and chequered career, which he talks about in this wander down memory lane, but his focus seems to be more on family and his circus roots. He is the descendant of a long line of big top performers from the Holden Bros Circus and he feels it is still in his blood, and his family.
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1.3KArtsTheatre 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 Theatre Company’s bold production of Sense & Sensibility, adapted by Kate Hamill.
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1.3KArtsTheatre Review: After Dinner
Three ladies having a girls’ night out, workmates who are there for various reasons, and at the next table a couple of blokes waiting for a mate to join them, such a typical scenario.
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633Adelaide FestivalAdelaide Festival Review: The Great War
Brought to Adelaide by creative minds from the Netherlands, this is a show that presents the audience with an unusual telling of World War I, imaginatively using miniature models and sets to tell its story.
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1.2KAdelaide 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 of a ten-year siege on an impenetrable city. There are bound to be some casualities. Alice Oswald’s Memorial doesn’t shy away from this fact,
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769ArtsTheatre Review: A Very Kransky Christmas
Using instruments such as a toilet brush, tuba, musical saw and other weird appliances, the sisters celebrate Christmas in their own unique style.
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972ArtsTheatre Review: Vale
Taking place in the penthouse suite of a premier Vale hotel, the New Year celebrations of the Vale family are interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest, forcing long buried secrets to the surface.
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771ArtsTheatre Review: Switzerland
Switzerland is an impressive balance between the contrasting genres of comedy and drama as the audience witnesses a humorously combative relationship bloom between strangers, foregrounded by a questionable sanity and a looming, ominous death.
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864ArtsOzAsia Review: The End
The End features Hatsune Miku who is an internationally renown pop star with fans across the globe, including the show’s composer Keiichiro Shibuya.
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551ArtsOzAsia Festival Review: Hotel
Singaporean theatre company W!ld Rice has created a sprawling epic, which gives audiences a journey through the last 100 years of Singapore history.
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728ArtsOzAsia Review: Until The Lions
As a teenager, Akram Khan performed in Peter Brook’s seminal work Mahabharata. Now in middle-age, and with residencies at Sadler’s Wells London and Curve Leicester, Khan has revisited this epic in Until the Lions.
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Macbeth
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most recognised tragedies, following arguably one of theatre's most complex couples on their increasingly merciless path towards the crown. But, are the Macbeth’s monsters of ambition and savagery, or are they the fractured result of trauma?
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: A Doll’s House
As the inaugural project of the State Theatre Company‘s Ensemble, this sharp-eyed adaptation of Ibsen’s proto-feminist tract offers much food for thought.
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604ArtsCabaret Festival Review: Composers in Exile: Peter Coleman-Wright and Nexus
A musical performance that is also a history lesson, taking us back through the years of the Weimar and the exodus of Jews from Germany.
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577ArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Three Mikados
Colin Lane and David Collins have joined with Amy G, direct from Broadway and described as a ‘deluxe weirdo extraordinaire’, to present this piece of wonderful nonsense.
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1.2KArtsInterview (Cabaret Festival): Nick Begbie from ‘The Idea Of North’
Ahead of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The Idea of North have recently returned to Australia from a tour of Switzerland and Germany, where they performed to critical acclaim.
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877Adelaide FringeFringe Review: Tubular Bells For Two
Musicians Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth both cover a wide variety of work, their latest project being the presentation of Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' live by only the two of them.
