by Clayton Werner | Nov 4, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA/INDIA] Nexus Arts, Lions Arts Centre, Sat 3 Nov. The evening’s music starts with an ensemble local musician Lyndon Gray has put together and it features jazz inspired by Carnatic (an Indian style) of rhythms. An idea quite suitable for a public airing at...
by Clayton Werner | Oct 31, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ SYRIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Tue 30 Oct. Performed in Arabic with English surtitles Set in Damascus, While I Was Waiting introduces us to a very human side of the conflict and upheaval in Syria in recent years. The situation sometimes seems clear...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 12, 2018 | Reviews, Theatre
Holden Street Theatres, Thu 11 Oct. The iconic The Graduate movie from 1967 was based on a novel written in 1963. This stage adaptation of the same story was written by Terry Johnson in the early 2000s. It essentially follows the same plot but comes with a few extra...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M 2.5 stars (out of 5) Drawn from George Harrar’s book of almost the same name, this ponderous, pseudo-intellectual psychodrama has a pretty good lead performance by Guy Pearce as a character it’s impossible to like, but the slow...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Linwood Barclay (Hachette Australia) 2018, 356pp, RRP $29.99, eBook RRP $14.99 The latest from the prolific Barclay, “a suspense master” according to Stephen King and probably best-known for the ‘Promise Falls Trilogy’ (Broken Promise, Far From True, The...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Elle Croft (Hachette Australia) 2018, 343pp, RRP $29.99, eBook $16.99 London-based writer, blogger and social-media-sort Croft’s second novel after The Guilty Wife is a readable if somewhat improbable psychological character drama, wherein you’re continually asked to...