by FringeGuest2 | Nov 19, 2023 | Featured, 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 FringeGuest2 | Oct 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Featured, 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 FringeGuest2 | Oct 25, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Featured, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
[Music: Aus] Space Theatre, Tue 24 Oct 1988 was a big year for Australia. White Australia celebrated its bicentenary. It was also a big year for Dung Nguyen. He emigrated from Vietnam to join his father in Australia. 1988 is an inspiring cultural event. It attempts to...
by FringeGuest2 | Oct 15, 2023 | Featured, Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre SA] Ink Little Theatre Fri Oct 13 2023 There’s a sadness about this work from James Graham. Many of the ideas behind Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper seemed quite acceptable. Socialist even. “Give the people what they want. “ “A newspaper for the people”...
by FringeGuest2 | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, 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...