by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Jim Al-Khalili (Profile) 2016, 232pp, RRP $19.99 Al-Khalili (OBE), a theoretical physicist, author, broadcaster and know-all, and 20 or so of his most formidably brainy friends and colleagues here ponder some of the biggest and most frustrating questions in...
by Catherine Blanch | Oct 24, 2016 | Comedy, Interviews, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Following successful seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, the world premiere of John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers – Live is heading to Adelaide for a three week run at Her Majesty’s Theatre. With a cast handpicked by Cleese himself, Fawlty Towers – Live is...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, PG, 126 Mins Co-writer/director (and former Monty Python member) Terry Gilliam had just emerged from the whole David and Goliath battle for his Brazil (1985) when he began work on this hopelessly chaotic filming of the exploits of a character no one had heard...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 2, 2016 | Comedy, Entertainment, Reviews
Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre, Tue 1 Mar In truth John Cleese and Eric Idle could have served up anything and I’d have been happy. I just wanted to pay homage to these comic masters who together with other members of the Monty Python team turned comedy on its...