by Dave Bradley | Feb 22, 2021 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2021, Reviews, Spoken Word, Theatre
[THEATRE/Spoken Word ~ WORLD PREMIERE ~ SA] The Arch at Holden Street Theatres, Sun 21 Feb. Peter Goers’ latest Fringe show is as Peter Goers-ish as they come, and all the better for it. After all, there are few performers of any shade who’d have the confidence to...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 22, 2019 | Book, Books, Reviews
Alex Michaelides (Hachette Australia) 2018, 341pp, paperback RRP $29.99, Ebook RRP $14.99. Praised by Lee Child (creator of Jack Reacher), Stephen Fry and other luminaries on the cover, this first novel by the Cyprus-born Michaelides has an air of authenticity due to...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 4, 2017 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, 94 Mins Writer/director John Waters (not the Aussie actor!!!) was well on his way from legendary gutter-auteur status with gross-out anti-classics like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble under his belt to Bad-Taste Living Treasure (a sort of campier Baltimorese...
by Catherine Blanch | Aug 15, 2016 | Interviews, Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. After three successful tours of the UK, a season in Mumbai and a sell-out year on London’s West End, Jeeves the calm and level-headed valet and the charmingly incompetent English gentleman Bertie Wooster are heading to Adelaide for a very limited...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 17, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Stephen Fry (Penguin Books Australia) 2014, 388pp, RRP $45.00 Fry’s third autobiographical work after Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles suffers from all the same irksome problems: wild overuse of adjectives; oodles of name-dropping; endless self-putdowns...