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 Adrian Miller | Oct 29, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Sat 28 Oct Amidst all the music, theatre, dance and other excellent activities that make up the OzAsia festival, a night of stand-up comedy featuring Asian Australian comedians is becoming a popular festival feature. People...
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...
by Michael Coghlan | Sep 28, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[World Premiere] [Theatre – SA] The Dictionary of Lost Words Dunstan Playhouse Wed 27 Sep 2023 At first pass the tale of a young woman growing up dreaming of being a lexicographer may not present as a ripping yarn. But courtesy of some astute direction,...
by Michael Coghlan | Jul 18, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Guitar Festival 2023, Live Music, Reviews
[Music – France, Australia] Antoine Boyer and Yeore Kim with special guest, Kathleen Halloran Dunstan Playhouse, 16 July 2023 This was Kathleen Halloran’s very first solo performance and she confessed to being very nervous. She needn’t have worried. Nervous or...