by Adrian Miller | Oct 29, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Sat 28 Oct Amidst all the music, theatre, dance and other excellent activities that make up the OzAsia festival, a night of stand-up comedy featuring Asian Australian comedians is becoming a popular festival feature. People...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, 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 Michael Coghlan | Oct 25, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, 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 Cathy Tune | Oct 23, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, OzAsia Festival 2023, Reviews
[Music: Aus] Nexus Arts, Sun 22 Oct. The title of today’s performance at Nexus Arts alerts us to the overriding themes of longing, dislocation, home and mothering. Four acclaimed jazz and experimental musicians from various cultural backgrounds share not only their...
by David Cronin | Oct 20, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, OzAsia Festival 2023, Puppetry, Reviews, Theatre
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre 7pm Thursday 19th October 2023. Starting with a nightmare where the echoes answer back, what appears to be a simple, almost innocent story grows into a saga of epic proportions. Although the issues addressed are specific to a...