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Heart in the Highlands. Bob Dylan with Paul Kelly. Entertainment Centre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2001-04)This time he blew in from the West. Still on the Neverending Tour, and back in Australia - three years on, and sixth time round - Bob Dylan has turned his Sisyphean treadmill into a victory lap. -
Hearts and Box Office Won, Minds Yet to Follow. "Adelaide Festival 2004" [review]
(The Australian, 2004-03-16)2004 would be the Recovery Festival for Adelaide. That has been the received wisdom ever since the 2002 event ended in inglorious shambles. The experience with iconoclastic American director Peter Sellars had been financially ... -
History Repeats After All. "The Finn Brothers". Entertainment Centre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-12-10)There is a sense of full circle here. Who said our beginnings never know our Enz? Neil and Tim Finn are touring a new album, ripe with harmony and turbid with memory. On stage at the Ent Centre, the flickering home movie ... -
Holy Day. "Holy Day" by Andrew Bovell. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2001-08-24)Holy Day is a relentless, and gripping, account of events from first contact which, in recent national political debate, have often been systematically repudiated and belittled. In this production the State Theatre Company ... -
A House Among the Stars. "House Among the Stars" by Michael Tremblay. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2001-05-04)State Theatre has succeeded with a work which, despite its soft edges and easy resolutions, has gentle charm and poetic accomplishment. This production has given us a memorable glimpse, the first on an Australian mainstage, ... -
Innocence and Squalor. "The Pitchfork Disney" by Philip Ridley. 4 Bux Progressive Arts [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-12)"The Pitchfork Disney" first played in 1990 and heralded a wave of what might be called punk theatre. In works such as "Shopping and Fucking" and "Disco Pigs" - both of which have performed in Adelaide - and films such as ... -
Jennifer in Security. "Jennifer in Security" by Noelle Janaczewska. Vitalstatistix Women's Theatre [review]
(The Australian, 2001-08-27)Noelle Janaczewska’s monologue, commissioned by Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre, is a modest cameo, a small, well-made piece rather like the porcelain that Jennifer collects and admires. But, sometimes, less is ... -
Journey to the End of the Earth. "Last Cab to Darwin" by Reg Cribb. Pork Chop Productions. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10)It is not surprising that playwright Reg Cribb saw the story of Max Bell as ready-made for the telling. It has all the elements of a mythic quest with a sturdy, self-deprecating hero meeting a host of different characters ... -
Jumping Joe Looks Sharp. "Joe Jackson (with Joe Camilleri and Bakelite Radio)". Thebarton Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-10)For the Thebarton show, Joe Camilleri and his fellow Bakelite Radio members, guitarist Claude Carranza and bass player Steve Starr, open the proceedings with an excellent set featuring all the Jo Jo moves from Poor Boy ... -
Kelly Rides With New Gang. "Paul Kelly". Her Majesty's Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-06)I like Paul Kelly to stay the same and tend to get tetchy when he changes things around, especially when he tinkers with his band line-up. I couldn’t see why he had to shoot the Messengers or why he would hire hotshot ... -
Killer Joe. "Killer Joe" by Tracey Letts. Brink Productions and State Theatre Company [review]
(The Australian, 2001-06-15)They are not a pleasant bunch in Mr Tracy Letts’s play but Brink’s version, with production support from State Theatre, takes us from Jerry Springer stereotype to a morality drama that is comic, shocking - and surprisingly ... -
A Last Hurrah. "Nixon's Nixon" by Russell Lees. P&S Productions in association with Arts Projects Australia. Dunstan Playhouse [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-03)Playwright Russell Lees is at pains to point out that Nixon’s Nixon is a fiction, a speculation of what might have transpired in a lengthy meeting between the President and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger on the ... -
Last Rights. "The Last Acre" by Sean Riley. Oddbodies Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-03)We know, and absolutely don’t want to know, how a single action, a single impulse can change everything. This is what we mean by a life-or-death moment, that split second, as we call it, when something irrevocable occurs ... -
Long Cool Drink From Brel's Well. Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2004 [review]
(The Australian, 2004-06-15)With 26 performances of its two week program already sold out, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is bringing a winter boost to the often dark Festival Centre. The opening weekend alone has some 11,000 punters in every nook and ... -
Looking for Life's Treasure. "Moonfleet" adapted by Catherine Zimdahl. Windmill Peforming Arts and Mainstreet Theatre Company [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-02)Windmill Performing Arts has a three year arrangement with the Mt Gambier based Mainstreet Theatre Company and, by the look of their first joint venture, the combination is going to be a happy one. Mainstreet director ... -
Marceau Still on Top As Mime Goes By. Marcel Marceau [review]
(The Australian, 2003-11-03)Marcel Marceau is a frail figure on stage now and, of course, has much less of the vitality of his heyday. But alone in the spotlight with his dexterity and pierrot sentimentality, he captivates an attentive and fond ... -
Masked Mayhem on the Menu. 'Ristorante Immortale' by Floz Productions [review]
(The Australian, 2003-02-24)The Ristorante Immortale is unlikely to get a listing in the Michelin Guide, or anywhere else for that matter. It has zany waiters, an accordion wielding cook, an endlessly hopeful owner and, it would seem, no customers ... -
Mind Games. "Myth, Propoganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America" by Stephen Sewell. State Theatre Company and Playbox [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-08)A new play by Stephen Sewell is always an event. And more often than not, his plays are heralded by marvellous titles. There is a cadence to them - "The Blind Giant is Dancing", "Dreams in an Empty City", "The Father We ... -
Modern Message in Miller Classic. 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2003-03-18)When, a year ago, Rosalba Clemente listed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible for inclusion in the 2003 State Theatre Company season, she cannot have imagined it would speak so vividly in such difficult times as these. Miller’s ... -
Monarch Unmasked Through Diaries. 'An Evening With Queen Victoria' by Prunella Scales [review]
(The Australian, 2004-11-05)With only simple period decor and a touch of electric gaslight, the success of this Evening rests with the intelligence and nuance of Prunella Scales’ convincing presentation, restless in adolescence, smitten in marriage, ...