by Michael Coghlan | Mar 8, 2023 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Reviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
[THEATRE AND PHYSICAL THEATRE/Immersive ~ SA] The Studio at Holden Street Theatres, Tue 7 Mar, 2023. The Fish Bowl is part seminar, part theatre. While daring to entertain on a touchy subject like dementia it also provides a lot of advice on how to cope with, and...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 10, 2021 | Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE ~ SA] University of Adelaide Theatre Guild, Little Theatre, Sat 9 Oct, 2021. Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer Prize winning 4000 Miles covers a lot of territory. It skips across multiple social and political issues affecting the contemporary American landscape. Ageism,...
by Michael Coghlan | Apr 10, 2015 | Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Arts Theatre, Thu Apr 9 This play by Ronald Harwood is unfortunately timely and topical. Many of us have now had experience of dementia. You don’t need to have it yourself; being close to someone suffering the condition is harrowing enough. To see this group of...
by Contributor | Aug 29, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Tony Husband (Murdoch) 2014, 64pp, RRP $16.99 Take Care, Son – The Story of My Dad and His Dementia is a touching, relevant and easily accessible account of one family’s experience as their loved one slowly slips away from them. In a conversational interview format,...