by Nikki Fort | Jun 17, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Festival Theatre Stage, Thu 16 Jun Emma Pask is one of Australia’s finest vocalists. Having sung with James Morrison since she was a fledgling at sixteen, she is totally at home on the stage and in front of a huge band of some of the best jazz musicians in the...
by Matt Saunders | Jun 17, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Thu 16 Jun The show is called This Infernal Racket, but it was the pairing of artists rather than the music that was the greatest source of dissonance at the Dunstan Playhouse. Harry Shearer and Judith Owen explored the contrasts in their ‘power...
by Michael Coghlan | Jun 17, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Artspace Gallery, Thu 16 Jun Hail Mary Mother of Fruit – this was a strange one. If this sentence has no connection with the one before it don’t worry. I’m not a very good writer anyway. Hue Blanes hyperlinks his way through this show via a seemingly random...
by Contributor | Jun 16, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
Space Theatre, Wed 16 Mar. “Children are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay. All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life.” — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, October 9, 1987. Based around the controversial UK bill Section...
by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 16, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Wed 15 Jun Songs For The Fallen treated the Dunstan Playhouse audience to a romping hour of Parisian debauchery as Sheridan Harbridge brings her show about French courtesan, Marie Duplessis to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. The Prologue really set...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 16, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Comedy, Reviews
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Wed 15 Jun For the past 15 years The Wharf Revue has been leading the way in political mockery in live theatre. For the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2016 they have gone back over their previous material to pick their most successful songs and skits...