by Jenny Thompson | Jul 15, 2015 | Dance, Music, Reviews
Imagine being in a nightclub with pumping pop by your favourite artists, then suddenly the dancefloor is taken over by a troupe of energetic, athletic, graceful, powerful ballet dancers… Who are also breakdancers… Who are also hiphop dancers… Who move effortlessly...
by Jenny Thompson | Jul 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Vicki Edgson & Adam Palmer (Allen & Unwin) 2015, 248pp, RRP $49.99 Gut Gastronomy promises a “life-changing strategy” of “improving your gut function in its entirety”. Coming from out of Grayshott Spa in England, the book provides a 14-day eating and fasting...
by Jenny Thompson | Jun 23, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Emer O’Toole (Orion/Hachette Australia) 2015, 278pp, RRP $29.99 Emer O’Toole is a doctor, a feminist and an actor – aspects which all come together in her book Girls Will Be Girls, to examine how we perform gender in our lives. In the book, O’Toole undertakes various...
by Jenny Thompson | Jun 19, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 18 Jun You always know exactly what to expect from Eddie Perfect: polished charm and on-pitch professionalism with a light touch of humour. Songs From The Middle – an examination of Perfect’s middle-class upbringing in the Victorian suburb of...
by Jenny Thompson | Jun 6, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Burlesque, Cabaret, Reviews
Space Theatre, Fri 5 Jun Come down to The Clover Club to drink, laugh and cry… or so we were promised. There wasn’t much time to drink in this hour-long show (not 70 minutes as advertised) with the rapid fire acts coming one after another. That was, in itself,...