by Lynette Washington | Feb 17, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Comedy, Reviews
The Garden Of Unearthly Delights – Studio 7, Tue 16 Feb Comedy is hard to review. All the things that work in other reviews, just don’t work in comedy reviews. It’s poor form to talk about the jokes and ruin the punchlines or even the build ups to the punchlines. So...
by Lynette Washington | Feb 14, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Circus & Physical Theatre, Music, Reviews
Royal Croquet Club – The Panama Club, Sat 14 Feb It’s not hard to find an impressive acrobatic display at the Adelaide Fringe, but it is hard to find an acrobatic display that is as cohesive, complete and exciting as Scotch & Soda. The team that brought you...
by Lynette Washington | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
David Mitchell (Hachette) 2015, 233pp, Hardback RRP $27.99 Fans of David Mitchell will be thrilled to know that Slade House occupies the same bizarre world as his other acclaimed novels The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. In fact, characters, concepts and themes hark...
by Lynette Washington | Oct 20, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2015, 306pp, RRP $32.99 In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led to a sinister corporation setting up a social experiment. Inside the...
by Lynette Washington | Oct 4, 2015 | Books, Reviews
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy (Bloomsbury) 2015, 231pp, RRP $85.00 Kosovo. Afghanistan. Washington DC. Singer, songwriter and poet PJ Harvey and photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy visited these places between 2011 and 2014 with their notebook and camera in hand....