All posts tagged "Joshua Coldwell"
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495ArtsTheatre Review: Hangmen
This is acting at its highest and best
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553ArtsTheatre Review: The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is full of wacky characters in ridiculous situations, and the laughs are fast and frequent
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1.2KArtsTheatre Review: Ink
A stellar cast who handle the mixture of comedy, cruelty and humanity well.
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1.3KArtsTheatre Review: The Suicide
Another brilliant production from Red Phoenix now playing at Holden Street Theatres
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1.2KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Pack of Lies
A supremely satisfying night in the theatre.
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1.6KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Things I Know To Be True
Andrew Bovell’s play follows the (mis) fortunes and emotional ties and tangles between members of the Price family living in Hallett Cove.
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1.5KEntertainmentTheatre Review: Cyrano de Bergerac – in the garden
28 characters, 9 actors and Dave Simms directing – you know it’s going to be an action packed, fast moving adventure.
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1.8KArtsTheatre Review: Our Man in Havana
In the beautiful setting of 1950’s Havana, a hapless British salesman is thrown into the foreign world of espionage during the corrupt Fulgencio Batista regime.
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3.6KArtsTheatre Review: Caligula
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus) was the third Emperor of the Roman Empire known for supposedly sleeping with all his sisters, executing landowners to take control of their lands, closing granaries to cause starvation and taking the wives of his senators and putting them into brothels (when he wasn't killing their children). Also, he reputedly had conversations with the moon and adored his horse so much that he was going to make it a member of the Roman Senate.
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1.3KArtsTheatre Review: The School for Scandal (…in the garden)
Following his successful 2017 season of Sense and Sensibility in garden locations, clever director Dave Simms (Blue Sky Theatre) this year re-imagines Sheridan’s 18th century comedy of manners in the exuberant primary colours and tabloid-fed rumour-mills of 1950’s London.
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1.1KArtsTheatre Review: Two Brothers
There’s a lot more to this political thriller than a tale of two quibbling siblings. Hannie Rayson's play runs like a televised current affairs report, showing the underside of Australian politics.
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1.6KArtsTwo Adelaide Brothers To Play “Two Brothers”
'Two Brothers' may be the most politically controversial Australian play of the last 25 years. It created a media cyclone when it was first produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
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884Adelaide FringeFringe Review: The Umbrella Plays
The Umbrella Plays is a collection of ten sketches involving love, revenge, infidelity and friendship and all featuring an umbrella.
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1.1KPerforming ArtsTheatre Review: Only An Orphan Girl
Presented by Adelaide Repertory Theatre Reviewed 18 Novemberr 2015 I’ve seen nothing like it. This Olde Music Hall production has the crowd jeering, booing and jumping out of their seats for some of the most enjoyable hour and a half in my theatre life. Unashamedly unrefined, the Adelaide Rep’s absurd melodrama effortlessly combines a classic […]
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1.2KPerforming ArtsGadzooks! The Rep Serves Up Christmas Ham With Hilarious Music Hall Variety Show
The Adelaide Repertory Theatre is serving up "ham" early this Christmas, with hilariously over the top music hall show and melodrama Only An Orphan Girl
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1.0KLatestTheatre Review: Much Ado About Nothing
When Megan Dansie directs Shakespeare something special happens. The setting of this piece at the end of WWII gives it depth and a darker side than it previously seemed to show.
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1.2KLatestTheatre Review: Dracula
Count Dracula is one of the most famous gothic horror characters, created in 1897 by Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker and based on history’s Vlad The Impaler.
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820LatestTheatre Review: The Mystery of the Hansom Cab
The Mystery of the Hansom Cab is a melodrama, which means that the audience gets to hiss and boo the dastardly deeds of the villain, cheer the handsome hero, swoon over the lovely heroine, and have a great sing-a-long with the cast.
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Theatre Review: Richard III
Tackling Shakespeare is not for the faint hearted. His comedies are well loved, his tragedies well known and his histories often avoided. Richard III has been grouped with the histories and also classed a tragedy, because it is a little of both. Let’s face it - lots of people die!
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Review: Away
Michael Gow’s play, about three Australian families on their respective summer holidays at the end of 1967, has been a staple of theatre groups since it was written.
