by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Liz Lawler (Bonnier) 2018, 362pp, RRP $29.99 Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds sometimes scarily genuine and rather excuses the occasional air...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible to like, which some readers might find odd or off-putting and...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 15, 2018 | Cabaret, Live Music, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sun 14 Jan. Songs And Stories Of The Paris Lido arrived with high expectations. It was an acknowledged success at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe and has toured widely in the meantime. The show is presented through the eyes of...
by Adrian Miller | Jan 14, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews
[FRANCE] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 13 Jan. Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains are a four-piece band led by quirky, charismatic Frànçois Marry, on guitar and vocal (and occasional piano). Frànçois talks to the audience in fluent English, but the...
by Michael Coghlan | Jan 14, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
[AUSTRALIA] Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 13 Jan. Exposing Edith begins in 1935 with Edith and her half-sister busking on the streets of Paris. There she is discovered by Louis Leplée and invited to sing in his nightclub. Thus began her journey to being...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jan 1, 2018 | Cabaret, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sun 31 Dec. Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show has well and truly arrived as Adelaide audiences delighted in doing the Time Warp once again this New Year’s Eve. Patrons were buzzing as they took seats adorned with red feather boas, helping to set...