by FringeGuest1 | Mar 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festival 2024, Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Featured, Reviews
Space Theatre, Sun 17 Mar, 2024. As we enter the Space Theatre we see a statue figure sitting at the back of the stage holding a white orb like some Eastern godlike figure. Only the very slightest of movement reveals this figure to be human. Similar white orbs are...
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 12, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre: SA, World Premiere] The Garden Space Theatre Wed 11 Oct 2023 Emily Steel’s new script is deceptively mundane, as she distils the big questions of life down into everyday language, grounded in the soil of a community garden. The wit and...
by Michael Coghlan | Aug 31, 2023 | Music, Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre AUS] The Space Theatre, Festival Centre, Tue 29 Aug Billie Holiday is often associated with the tag ‘the lady sings the blues’ after the film depicting her life from 1972. Holiday herself saw things as more nuanced: “I sing the blues with a jazz beat”. This...
by Michael Coghlan | May 7, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre – Aus] State Theatre Company Fri 5 May, 2023 Given the subject matter and the likelihood that Prima Facie might be a somewhat harrowing experience for the audience, it begins, wisely perhaps, in quite a light vein. It’s not long before Caroline Craig as...