by Michael Coghlan | May 19, 2017 | Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Thu 18 May. Courtesy of George Orwell’s novel the year 1984 has long been associated with notions of an all controlling state that knows everything about what its citizens are doing. It has become synonymous with the idea of the state as Big...
by Adrian Miller | Apr 1, 2017 | Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Wed 29 Mar. This is not a play that eventually goes slightly off the rails. Everything goes comically wrong pretty much from the outset and continues to do so as the evening unfolds. In fact it pays to be a little early to watch stage...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Mar 19, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Multimedia, Music, Reviews, Theatre
The GC at The German Club – Studio, Fri 17 Mar. Walk through the door to a dystoptian future that still holds hope for renewal. Wow, big dreams! In the search for utopia and organic symbiosis we have two screens and two music gizmos to immerse our senses in a world of...
by Clayton Werner | Mar 17, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Tandanya Arts Cafe – Thu 16 Mar. Buried At Sea is three plays in one – it’s a story about playwright and actor Mark Salvestro’s great uncle George and his life cut short in 1915, injured at Gallipoli and then literally ‘buried at sea’ from the hospital...
by Clayton Werner | Mar 16, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Bakehouse Theatre – The Studio, Wed 15 Mar. Anteworld has been written by local Mark Tripodi and is where No Exit meets Greek mythology. It stars three characters and though it is in the modern idiom, it is full of references to the classics. It takes a modern...
by Michael Coghlan | Mar 15, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews, Theatre
Studio in Bakehouse Theatre, Tue 14 Mar. Matrophobia! is the fear of becoming like your mother, and The Daughters Collective do a superb job of conveying the web of intricate reactions this conjures up. They achieve that Holy Grail of comedy with a show that is really...