by Clayton Werner | Jun 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Family Entertainment, Music, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sun 18 Jun. Music is an important part of rehabilitation and therapy in hospitals especially when done in harmony with the science. The Hush Foundation began in the Melbourne Children’s Hospital to make the most of this. Interestingly, it’s not...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 18 Jun. Brel: “The supreme madness is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” Ali McGregor’s introduction told that the English speaking world didn’t really discover the music of Jacques Brel until he was...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sun 18 Jun. Meow Meow continues to be one of the most intriguing as well as terrifying cabaret performers with her haunting and powerful vocals and erratic comedy. Her 2017 Adelaide Cabaret Festival show, Souvenir, is written as a celebration of...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 16 Jun. Live music is unique in that it can be experienced in many contexts, often governed by genre and intended audience, and those contexts dictate the experience of seeing a singer-songwriter: there’s the...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 18, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Sat 17 Jun. Courtney Act first came to the attention of the nation when she appeared in the debut season of Australian Idol in 2003, at a time when a fluid gender expression and drag was much less visible on mainstream television. She is...