by Rosie van Heerde | Jun 11, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Burlesque, Cabaret, Comedy, Entertainment, Music, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 10 Jun TheVariety Gala Performance ushered in the 2016 Adelaide Cabaret Festival with a line-up of selected acts handpicked by curators Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect to showcase their idea of what cabaret ‘could be’. The very tone of this year’s...
by Bobby Goudie | Jun 11, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Cabaret, Reviews
Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 10 Jun Trevor Ashley and Rhonda Burchmore have both independently had triumphant shows at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Trevor Ashley last appeared in Adelaide in 2015 with I’m Every Woman and previously Liza (on an E), a show which has taken...
by Contributor | May 29, 2016 | Comedy, Reviews
Rhino Room, Sat 28 May The last Saturday of every month brings the cream of comedy to the home of Adelaide Comedy, Rhino Room for The Luwak. Hosted by the extremely funny and cheeky man himself Mickey D, The Luwak is ‘Adelaide’s Premium Comedy Night’ which, on this...
by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Susannah Carson (Oneworld) 2016, 500pp, RRP $29.99 Carson’s collection of personal essays concerning the enormous influence ‘The Bard’ has had upon writers of all sorts, directors of stage and screen, actors of every stripe and a few other pleasingly random...
by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Leigh Hopkinson (Hachette Australia) 2016, 312pp, RRP $29.99 The first book from stripper-turned-author Hopkinson is a most readable account of one woman’s experience in the ‘table dancing’/‘lingerie dancing’/whatever industries in New Zealand, London and Australia,...
by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | Books, Music, Reviews
Mick Wall (Hachette Australia) 2016, 309pp, RRP $32.99 Rock writer and pro biographer Wall has always had an interest in the harder, more metal side of things (note his other tomes upon Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses), and...