by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Jun 21, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 20 Jun What better way to bring Barry Humphries’ Adelaide Cabaret Festival to an end than to see the man himself as Sir Les Patterson? The first thing you notice on entering the theatre is that patrons in the front three...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 11, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
ArtSpace, Wed 10 Jun Ash Flanders jests that his private school education and white upper-middle class childhood is the perfect platform to play the victim. He is fuelled by witnessing other people playing out their own self-perceived victim attitude, together with...
by Siân Williams | Jun 8, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Sun 8 Jun Peter Dawson and Jack O’Hagan were two of Australia’s most prolific musicians and composers, yet more widely lauded overseas than here on our own ground – and Dawson, in fact, heralded from Adelaide itself. Brought to the stage in the...
by Lynette Washington | Jun 8, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Banquet Room, Sun 7 Jun In Cole, the musical tribute to songwriter Cole Porter, Michael Griffiths embodies the joy and tension of being Cole Porter beautifully. His voice is perfectly suited to the music, its era and the required precise annunciation. Griffiths brings...
by Siân Williams | Jun 6, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 5 Jun The opening of the 2015 Adelaide Cabaret Festival was a fiesta of glittering, shining superstars. And that was just the audience. Jokingly referring to the empty seats – not that we could sight any – as corporate sponsor seats...