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 21, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre SA] Star Theatres Thu 20 Oct, 2023. Bronwen James gives her impeccable singing voice full flight in this fabulously entertaining show. The songs are a mix of clever parodies and originals, selected and written to chronicle the lives of some famous red-heads,...
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...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 15, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre SA] Ink Little Theatre Fri Oct 13 2023 There’s a sadness about this work from James Graham. Many of the ideas behind Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper seemed quite acceptable. Socialist even. “Give the people what they want. “ “A newspaper for the people”...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 12, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre
[Theatre: SA, World Premiere] The Garden Space Theatre Wed 11 Oct 2023 Emily Steel’s new script is deceptively mundane, as she distils the big questions of life down into everyday language, grounded in the soil of a community garden. The wit and...