by Dave Bradley | Jun 9, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA ~ ADELAIDE PREMIERE] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 8 Jun. Director Rob Reiner’s, sorry, Marti DiBergi’s fake, sorry, VERY REAL documentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has a formidable following, and it took Tim Rogers and You Am I to realise that the band’s...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 9, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Burlesque, Cabaret, Circus & Physical Theatre, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA & INTERNATIONAL ~ WORLD PREMIERE] Space Theatre, Fri 8 Jun. Adelaide Cabaret Festival Artistic Director, Ali McGregor, has hand-picked a selection of world-renowned purveyors, movers and shakers of the neo-cabaret world to perform together for the...
by Dave Bradley | May 31, 2018 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
Margo Jefferson (Granta) 2018, 144pp, RRP $22.99 Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating, idiosyncratic and rather disturbing, as it details the many faces...
by Dave Bradley | May 31, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M Jason Momoa is pretty busy at the moment on massive productions (he finished up on Game Of Thrones a while back and now he’s Aquaman in the Justice League movies and the new Crow too), but here he settles for something smaller and...
by Rosie van Heerde | May 25, 2018 | Reviews, Theatre
Holden Street Theatres – The Studio Theatrical nihilism is alive and well in this inherently bleak portrayal of Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus – better known by history as Caligula. Penned by French-Algerian philosopher and author of the absurdist tradition, Albert...
by Michael Coghlan | May 24, 2018 | Reviews, Theatre
The Bakehouse Theatre – Main Theatre, Wed 23 May. Frank Forbes is a handyman stuck pretty much alone in his shed working on his various projects. His wife and kids have all left him, but it’s the internet age and Frank finds solace of sorts in his contact with a...