by Tori Brookes | Jan 21, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Classical, Music, Orchestra, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 13 Jan. Adelaide Baroque Orchestra’s performance opened with a selection from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, written by Jean-Baptiste Lully to accompany the play by Moliere, and was originally performed in 1670...
by Adrian Miller | Jan 14, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[FRANCE ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 13 Jan. A solitary petite figure on stage clutching an electric guitar launches into some gentle but melodically captivating folk pop songs. With the aid of some quirky rhythms and some sonic...
by Festivals Contributor | Jan 12, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Puppetry, Reviews
[FRANCE ~ AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE] Space Theatre, Sat 11 Jan. L’Après-Midi d’Un Foehn put me in mind of children’s theatre by way of Samuel Beckett, a strange, wordless dance conducted by a severe-looking man and performed by his army of air sprites, like Prospery and a...
by Festivals Contributor | Jan 12, 2019 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2019, Dance, Reviews
[FRANCE ~ AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 11 Jan. How do you tell a love story that involves two people, four nationalities, and five languages? Through the universal language. Not math, the other one, the older one: dance. That’s the conceit behind...
by Clayton Werner | Nov 10, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals
[CHINA] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Fri 9 Nov. A contemporary play from Taiwan that has become one of the most popular pieces of modern theatre in China – that is a large divide to cross, especially politically! The stage is set, unset, reset and then...
by Clayton Werner | Nov 7, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[INDONESIA/JAPAN/AUSTRALIA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Tue 6 Nov. An evening in Indonesia, it’s warm, humid, we’re outdoors and there is the sound of crickets and we can see fireflies on the nearby trees. The coppers and bronzes are filmed in green from...