by Adrian Miller | Mar 5, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Reviews
Festival Theatre, Fri 4 Mar Monumental opens dramatically with a group of dancers from The Holy Body Tattoo standing menacingly on individual white pedestals. Behind them, barely visible in shadow the musicians from Godspeed You! Black Emperor begin their loud but...
by Rosie van Heerde | Mar 2, 2016 | Dance, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Theatre
by Rosie van Heerde. Adelaide audiences are soon to be immersed in the CATS experience as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved feline musical returns in revival form after a triumphant London season in 2015. Based upon T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the...
by Rosie van Heerde | Mar 2, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre – Adelaide Festival Centre, Tue 1 Mar Beginning a few years after James I ended, the second instalment in this grand trilogy introduces audiences to James II, the much fought over boy-king abandoned by his mother to the unscrupulous Scottish...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Feb 27, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Fri 26 Feb The James Plays have been compared to those of Shakespeare and his English Kings. This trilogy centering on Scotland’s Kings, the first in the series being James I, is most definitely not Shakespeare. As riveting as Shakespeare? Yes. As...
by Rosie van Heerde | Feb 21, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews, Theatre
by Rosie van Heerde. Excitement is steadily building as audiences impatiently await the arrival of The James Plays Trilogy, a series of three dramatic works written by Rona Munro and brought to Adelaide by the National Theatre of Scotland. Directed by Laurie Sansom,...