by Adrian Miller | Feb 15, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Reviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
Ruby’s at Holden Street Theatres, Wed 14 Feb, 2024. [Theatre and Physical Theatre/True Life ~ UK(Wales) ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Ruby’s is a small room with limited capacity, set up as a sport changing room, almost too close for comfort. In walks an ordinary man dressed...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 13, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Comedy, Interviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
by Adrian Miller Great Detectives has been entertaining theatre audiences for 10 years now, recreating the experience of attending a 1950s radio recording of fabulous detective stories. The Clothesline contacted artistic director Benjamin Maio Mackay and began by...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 10, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre
[THEATE ~ AUS] The Children, Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 9 Feb, 2024. In 2011 a nuclear power plant in Fukushima caused a radiation scare when its reactors were destroyed as a result of an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. British playwright Lucy Kirkwood has created a...
by Cathy Tune | Jan 7, 2024 | Musical Theatre, Opera, Reviews, Theatre
Miss Saigon Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. Fri 5 Jan, 2024. Cameron Mackintosh, GWB Entertainment and Opera Australia have put together a visual and musical delight in this latest rendition of Miss Saigon. Adapting elements of the original show to reflect...
by Michael Coghlan | Nov 19, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre AUS; World Premiere] The Space Theatre, Festival Centre, Sat 18 Nov It’s a challenge to take a basic human ritual, turn it into a work of art, and offer new perspectives on that ritual. Welcome to Your New Life is only partly successful in that quest. The...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews, Theatre
[Performance Poetry: Canada] Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 25 Oct I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron is essentially performance poetry. Ngo King Kie has put the poems of Xu Lizhi to music in a sombre, sometimes bleak, sometimes quite beautiful, presentation. Its principal...