Blue: The Trials And Joys Of Growing Up ~ Adelaide Festival 2024/State Theatre Company Review

by Michael Coghlan | Feb 28, 2024 | Adelaide Festival 2024, Adelaide Festivals, Featured, Reviews, Theatre

[THEATRE ~ AUS] Scott Theatre, University of Adelaide, Tue 28 Feb, 2024. Blue is the colour of the ocean. It is also the colour associated with depression. You also turn blue when starved of oxygen when you drown. These are central themes in the life of a young boy...

Theatre Review ~ Lady Day ~ The Story of Billie Holiday

by Michael Coghlan | Aug 31, 2023 | Music, Reviews, Theatre

[Theatre AUS] The Space Theatre, Festival Centre, Tue 29 Aug Billie Holiday is often associated with the tag ‘the lady sings the blues’ after the film depicting her life from 1972. Holiday herself saw things as more nuanced: “I sing the blues with a jazz beat”. This...

At What Cost: Confronting Identity ~ Review

by Michael Coghlan | Jun 24, 2023 | Reviews, Theatre

[Theatre – Aus] State Theatre Company (in conjunction with Belvoir St Theatre) Odeon Theatre, Thu 22 June With the daily focus in the media around the imminent Voice referendum there has never been a more fertile time for discussion of Aboriginal issues and At...

Mortido: A Brilliantly Gripping Look At The Human Face Of Drug Trafficking, Presented by Belvoir St Theatre and State Theatre Company of SA – Review

by Nikki Fort | Oct 22, 2015 | Reviews, Theatre

Dunstan Playhouse, Tue 20 Oct [World Premiere] Robert Cousins’ dark, spacious set, already off-centre, with sharp angles jutting into the audience, its huge reflective backdrop making it impossible for anyone to hide from themselves, hints at what is to come. Colin...