by Clayton Werner | Mar 4, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[Kids & Family/Musical Theatre ~ SA] Norwood Concert Hall, Sat 4 Mar, 2023. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a mammoth undertaking by Theatre Bugs and Adelaide Theatre Academy; it’s clear that there has been an enormous amount of work gone into props and costumes for...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 26, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Comedy, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[Kids & Family/Comedy ~ AUS] The Virago at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Sat 25 Feb, 2023. You Are a Doughnut is what happens when you mix musical theatre, comedy, physical comedy, our body’s organs and excretions together! It’s a riot of fun from ingestion right...
by Clayton Werner | Feb 19, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2023, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Magic/Illusion, Reviews
[Kids and Family/Science ~ IRE] The Lark at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Sat 18 Feb, 2023. Part Science/part comedy, with fleeting references towards magic (that are all explained as science). Despite admonitions at the start of the show about bad language, that we the...
by Michael Coghlan | Jul 11, 2022 | Family Entertainment, Illuminate Adelaide, Reviews
[FESTIVAL/Light ~ Family Event ~ AUS] Adelaide Zoo, Sun 10 Jul. Full credit must go to Adelaide Zoo and Illuminate Adelaide for this enterprising collaborative endeavour. I am still amazed at the numbers of people who like to go outside on a cold winter’s night and do...
by Ian Bell | Jun 5, 2022 | Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews
[MUSICAL THEATRE/Family/Disney ~ AUS] Adelaide Festival Theatre, Sat 28 May, 2022. If this was going to be a very short review (not my forté) it would read like this. At the breathtaking and magical conclusion to the first act of Frozen The Musical, my nine-year-old...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 14, 2022 | Adelaide Festival 2022, Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Family Entertainment, Live Music, Reviews, WOMADelaide 2022
[WORLD MUSIC/Contemporary/Dance ~ AUS/INT] Botanic Park, Sat 12 Mar. I decided to skip the yoga sessions and went straight to the Foundation Stage for Sorong Samurai. Musicians from PNG and West Papua (still under the control of Indonesia) launched with soft flutes...
