by Bobby Goudie | Jul 29, 2017 | Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
The Fisher Chapel, Scotch College, Fri 28 Jul. Based on the single-panel cartoons by Charles Addams, The Addams Family the musical opened on Broadway in 2010 and premiered in Adelaide with Matt Byrne Media in 2014. The ghoulish characters of Gomez, Morticia,...
by TheClothesLine | Jul 7, 2017 | Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Arts Theatre, Thu 6 Jul. With music and lyrics by The Bee Gees and based on the 1975 article Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night and the famous 1977 movie, you would think that the musical version would be a sure hit. The show continues to tour the world, but fails...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille (Icon) 2017, 112pp, RRP $24.99 This aesthetically pleasing book is supposedly compensation for a longer, more detailed and personal biography of (Tessa) Charlotte Rampling that Bataille apparently chased the icon for over...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 25, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Music, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Sat 24 Jun. Opening to the strains of a revolutionary medley incorporating anthems from artists spanning contemporary music from The Beatles and Michael Jackson to Bob Marley, Rage Against The Machine and T. Rex, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival’s...
by Dave Bradley | Jun 24, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Magic/Illusion, Reviews
Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent, Fri 23 Jun. All the way from (supposedly) the Gold Coast, this pair of ‘dancing illusionists’ early on promised a ‘triple threat’ show of ‘dance, magic and more dance’, but it was mostly dance, albeit dance of a most hilariously cringing...