by Michael Coghlan | Feb 28, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Live Music, Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Thelma, A Space Called at RAJOPOLIS at Raj House, Tue 27 Feb. [THEATRE/MUSICAL THEATRE – NSW] Pauline Hanson may have drifted out of the news again lately, but she is still rich fodder for humour. And, in this case, the perfect subject for musical comedy. No wonder...
by Lynette Washington | Feb 27, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
The Jade, Mon 26 Feb. [COMEDY/THEATRE – SA] Deviant Women is first rate, fun, fabulous and flirty Fringe. Alicia and Lauren, who podcast as Deviant Women, have put together a super-charged version of their podcast with stage antics, claymation and costumes. The...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 26, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Holden Street Theatres – The Manse at Holden Street Theatres, Sun 25 Feb. [THEATRE/COMEDY – SA] The intimacy of Holden Street Theatres’ The Manse (reach out and you can almost touch the actors!) is a slightly scary place to be confronted by two beefy, bearded males...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 24, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Star Theatre Two at Star Theatres, Fri 23 Feb. [THEATRE – SA] Kokoda is a 70 minute monologue in which Todd Gray, as a young poorly-trained militiaman Private Morris Powell, re-tells his experience of the war in New Guinea in 1942. Gray’s comedic tendencies lay on the...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 23, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
The Garage International @Adelaide Town Hall, Thu 22 Feb. [THEATRE –IRI] The plight of the migrant is much discussed and much maligned. There are many things in life that are hard to really understand unless experienced firsthand, and migration would be near the top...
by David Robinson | Feb 22, 2018 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Mainstage at Bakehouse Theatre, Wed 21 Feb. [THEATRE/SPOKEN WORD – UK] Guy Masterson steps out onto the stage and introduces this production, staged to commemorate the centenary of the final year of the Great War. ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH is the first of four plays...