by Michael Coghlan | Oct 8, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Reviews, Theatre
[China ~ Australian Premiere] Elder Hall, Sat 7 Oct. This was a show in two parts. The first half of the show was as per advertised in the OzAsia festival program – live musical accompaniment to a traditional Chinese folk tale. The second unadvertised part of the show...
by Adrian Miller | Oct 8, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Reviews
[UK, INDIA] Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Sat 7 Oct. Rising is a seventy minute dance program performed by one man, UK born Indian Aakash Odedra. It might seem a big ask for a single dancer to keep an audience enthralled for this long, but Aakash Odedra...
by Clayton Werner | Oct 7, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[Hong Kong/Australia ~ World Premiere] Nexus Arts, Fri 6 Oct. First up in tonight’s program, Tracey Chen seemed more like Music In Introspection, while there certainly was a good audience connection, at times it seemed we were all crammed into her tiny Hong Kong...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 6, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[AUSTRALIA] Space Theatre, Thu 5 Oct. Chinese-Australian rapper Joelistics and Filipino-Australian musician James Mangohig’s collective Australian heritage stretches back to 1916 when Joelistics’ Chinese grandmother was born in Sydney. They are eminently qualified to...
by Michael Coghlan | Oct 4, 2017 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
[Japan ~ Australian Premiere] Her Majesty’s Theatre, Tue 3 Oct. The lights go down at Her Majesty’s and we are taken to an unnamed inn with no owner in the far north west of Japan to spend a strange night with a group of lost souls. Travelling father and son...
