by Janine Spearpoint | Mar 9, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Reviews
[Dance ~ Australian Premiere ~ Adelaide Exclusive ~ GER] Festival Theatre,Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 8 Mar. Everybody knows the story of Carmen, of lust, love, betrayal and murder. This ballet, choreographed by Johan Inger, takes the story on a rollercoaster of...
by Adrian Miller | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE ~ GBR] Adelaide Town Hall – Auditorium, Thu 7 Mar. Celebrated British cellist Natalie Clein and the wonderful Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva take to the stage to present a varied but beautifully balanced program for their first national...
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 Michael Coghlan | Mar 8, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ AUSTRALIA] Odeon Theatre, Thu 7 Mar. You’re sitting near a total stranger. As time goes by it becomes weird not to talk so you make the tentative awkward attempt to strike up conversation. It’s trite to begin with – you talk about the time, public...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 7, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE ~ BELGIUM/GERMANY] Adelaide Festival Centre – Space Theatre, Wed 6 Mar. Technology has had a significant impact on live theatre, and when coupled together with the creative vision of director Milo Rau you get something quite special. The...
by Adrian Miller | Mar 4, 2019 | Adelaide Festival 2019, Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ SA] The Grace Emily Hotel, Sun 3 Mar. There are a plethora of tribute bands in this year’s Fringe and Trafalgar are not even the only BeeGees tribute. Named after the BeeGees’ ninth album, Trafalgar’s point of difference is to focus on the classic songwriting...