by Ruby Neimann | Mar 17, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Event, Reviews
The ARC Campbelltown, Sat 16 Mar. [EVENTS ~ SA] There’s something extremely charming about entering what is clearly a very tight knit, very niche subculture that you don’t belong to. That was the immediate feeling I had attending the South Australian Roller Derby...
by Ruby Neimann | Mar 12, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2019
[WORLD MUSIC ~ INT] Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla, Mon 11 Mar. Is WOMADelaide one of the best produced festivals in Australia? Walking into the beautiful grounds on a perfect mild, breezy Autumn Monday, it definitely feels like it might be. It’s clean, pleasant, and...
by Ruby Neimann | Mar 10, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Musical Theatre, Reviews
A Man Of Good Hope: A Very South African Musical ~ Adelaide Festival 2019 Review [MUSIC ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ SOUTH AFRICA] Royalty Theatre, Wed 6 Mar. A Man Of Good Hope is an odd creature. It’s an uplifting musical built around a series of monologues directed to...
by Ruby Neimann | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[Contemporary Music ~ AUS] The Palais, Thu 7 Mar. Sarah Blasko’s one-night-only Palais performance had the audience enraptured. Listening to the people around me it seemed that everyone had a Blasko story – “I’ve seen her five/seven/eight times”. There was so much...
by Ruby Neimann | Feb 20, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Comedy, Reviews
Gluttony – Masonic Lodge – Owl Room, Tue 19 Feb. [COMEDY/SPOKEN WORD ~ SA PREMIERE – CAN] Gillian English is a tall, angry Canadian with an MFA in theatre, and she’s here to tell us a few things she thinks about Shakespeare. Her stand-up comedy show is built around a...