by Clayton Werner | Oct 4, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Music, Reviews
[TAIWAN] Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, Sat 3 Oct In the exploration of noise, it’s just as important to pay careful attention to the silence. Similarly, with darkness and light. In Dear John, a musical/physical theatre piece dedicated to John Cage (the one famous...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 4, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Sat 3 Oct Made in 1991, this film is very clunky and predictable. Sadly, the subtitle translations were so bad that it was often hard to know what they meant. At times, viewers were talking aloud in the cinema trying to understand the...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 3, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Film, Reviews
[HONG KONG] Mercury Cinema, Thu 1 Oct This is a frustrating story of true love thwarted by meddling extended family members. Directed by Hong Kong’s Ann Hui, it is set in Shanghai in the 1930s and shows a society obsessed with family and having children and where the...
by Matt Saunders | Oct 3, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Music, Reviews
[BELGIUM/INDIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Fri 2 Oct A varied and virtuosic exploration of game-playing through dance and music, Play is an entertaining and frequently jaw-dropping work of stagecraft, with live musicians and dancers collaborating in technically-challenging,...
by Nikki Fort | Oct 2, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
[CHINA] Her Majesty’s Theatre, Thu 1 Oct This OzAsia Festival show is full of surprises. The very tender publicity photo fooled me into thinking this was purely a love story, and while the quest for love is definitely a theme, this multimedia music theatre piece is...
