by David Cronin | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Clown, Comedy, Reviews
[Comedy/Clown ~ VIC] The Bally at Gluttony, Sat 17 Feb, 2024. Clowning is a universal language, and it is even more powerful when silent. Jeromaia Detto is well into his show before he speaks, and then it is mostly with sounds and gibberish. Detto has us totally...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 18, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Multimedia, Reviews
[MUSIC/Multimedia ~ QLD ~ SA PREMIERE] The Planetarium, Sat 17 Feb, 2024 K Mak’s website says they are the brainchild of cellist Kathryn McKee, and describes their music as ‘a distillation of classical, alternative and electro-pop music.’ That’s handy because I was...
by Adrian Miller | Feb 17, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews
[MUSIC ~ ADELAIDE FRINGE PREMIERE ~ AUS] The Jade, Fri 16 Feb, 2024. As The Jade begins to fill it is clear that there will be more than the eight people Charles Jenkins feared would be the total audience. (Did he bring enough merch?) To begin with it is just him on...
by David Cronin | Feb 17, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Reviews, Theatre, Theatre & Physical Theatre
[Theatre and Physical Theatre ~ New Writing ~ SA PREMIERE ~ GB] The Yurt, Migration Museum, Fri 16 Feb, 2024. It’s easy to forget how the foundations of our culture were formed. We need to remind ourselves the cement in those foundations is from Greece. If art is the...
by Michael Coghlan | Feb 17, 2024 | Adelaide Festivals, Adelaide Fringe 2024, Live Music, Music, Reviews, Theatre
[THEATRE & PHYSICAL THEATRE/Music ~ CAN ~ AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE] The Garage International @ Scots, Fri 16 Feb, 2024. There used to be a program on SBS called Front-Up. Its basic premise was that everybody has an interesting story to tell. They would stop random...