Tearing through a list of recent hits Rosemary, Do The Stomp and Great Western Highway, Johnny Wishbone sang about sin and salvation, more snake oil salesman than preacher, the crowd eating up the guilty pleasure that is the Snowdropper’s schtick.
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Imperial Fizz
Presented by Guy Masterson’s Centre for International Theatre in association with Theatre Tours International and Absurdum International @ Higher Ground, Main Theatre FRIDAY 24th February (until Mar 18) Imperial Fizz (penned by American playwright Brian Parks) is described as part Noel Coward, part Oscar Wilde, with a helping of Samuel Beckett to finish off. In […]
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Pratchett Pieces Three
Presented by Unseen Theatre Company @ Bakehouse Theatre, Main Stage WEDNESDAY 22 Feb 2012 (until Feb 24) Five Terry Pratchett novels and four plays later, Pratchett Pieces Three was down on my list as another respectable Unseen Theatre Company production, although not without its ups and downs. Another Pratchett play. On hearing this some […]
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LoveBirds
Presented by Strut & Fret @ The Idolize Spiegeltent, Garden of Unearthly Delights WEDNESDAY 22 Feb 2012 (until March 18) When feathered friends become ‘more than friends’… This gloriously exotic cabaret is far from the typical image we have in our heads of love birds – young tweeny-bopper so-and-so’s that frolick about on the […]
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DragOrama – Presented by Feast Festival
@ The Idolize Spiegeltent, Garden of Unearthly Delights SUNDAY 19 Feb 2012 To any passerby at the Garden of Unearthly Delights on Sunday night, it would have been clear that something quite spectacular was going on. With seven foot Drag Queens casually drinking by the bar and sequins as far as the eye could […]
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The Garden of Unearthly Delights Opening Night
Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide. THURSDAY 16 FEB 2012 What people like most about Adelaide’s festival season, they say, is that it makes the city come alive. For a month or so of late summer between February and March, streets, pubs, clubs, and other venues all around town are engulfed with a spirit of fun, […]
Continue ReadingAncient Greece Meets Political Fiction in Persians
Persians is the world’s oldest surviving play. Written by the Greek poet Aeschylus, it imagines the reactions of the Persian leaders to their army’s destruction at the hands of the Greeks. One of the few Greek tragedies to actually be set in their current day rather than mythic times, it’s essentially Ancient Greek contemporary political […]
Continue ReadingFringe spin on a classic in All’s Well that Ends Well
All’s Well that Ends Well is a romantic comedy where the couple shouldn’t be together and their eventual reconciliation strikes a somewhat disquieting note. The Fringe World production from local theater company North Sea Boat Terminals is a spirited and ambitious take on one of Shakespeare’s problem plays. The small cast of young Perth actors […]
Continue ReadingLife and laughs under the waves in Eric’s Tales of the Sea
Eric doesn’t look like your average comedian, nor is his show an average comedy show, but there’s a very good reason for that. Eric – first name only – has spent his life onboard Royal Navy nuclear submarines and although he says he hates the way Hollywood portrays submarines, the stories he tells in Eric’s Tales […]
Continue ReadingGood, clean family magic in Simon Coronel’s Manipulations
Short sleeves, cheeky grin and very good hands are how Simon Coronel rolls in his one-man illusionist show, Manipulations. There is no doubt that Coronel is world-class; he has won the Australian Society of Magician’s Annual Competition four years in a row and is only the fourth Australian in history to place at the World […]
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