by Adrian Miller | Feb 19, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[CABARET ~ Music ~ SA] Mezzanine at Mezzanine at Plant 4 Bowden, Sun 18 Feb, 2024. I would have happily gone to see a concert of Alexandra Frost singing jazz or blues songs, but this show offers a lot more. Through story and song, it tells her own story, not of...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Children's Entertainment, Family Entertainment, Live Music, Physical Theatre, Reviews
[KIDS AND FAMILY/Music ~ SA] Monski Mouse’s Baby Cabaret, Spiegel Zelt, GOUD, Sat 17 Feb, 2024. This opening show of the season saw Monski perform her well-travelled baby cabaret with a new cast, joined by sidekicks, Johnno and Yulia. The trio present what has...
by David Cronin | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Clown, Comedy, Reviews
[Comedy/Clown ~ VIC] The Bally at Gluttony, Sat 17 Feb, 2024. Clowning is a universal language, and it is even more powerful when silent. Jeromaia Detto is well into his show before he speaks, and then it is mostly with sounds and gibberish. Detto has us totally...
by Cathy Tune | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Circus & Physical Theatre, Reviews
[CIRCUS ~ Acrobatics ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Peacock at Gluttony – Rymill Park, Sat 17 Feb, 2024. It is 14 years since Adelaide based Gravity and Other Myths formed their renowned group acrobatics company. I saw the fledgling company in its first season and...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Multimedia, Reviews
[MUSIC/Multimedia ~ QLD ~ SA PREMIERE] The Planetarium, Sat 17 Feb, 2024 K Mak’s website says they are the brainchild of cellist Kathryn McKee, and describes their music as ‘a distillation of classical, alternative and electro-pop music.’ That’s handy because I was...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 17, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE ~ AUS] The Jade, Fri 16 Feb, 2024. As The Jade begins to fill it is clear that there will be more than the eight people Charles Jenkins feared would be the total audience. (Did he bring enough merch?) To begin with it is just him on...