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Naked Observation to End Festival on a High. Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2004 [review]
(The Australian, 2004-06-25)When you go to a show called Private Dancer what exactly might you expect? Dancer, performance artist, satirist and hostess, Wendy McPhee makes it very clear when she appears dressed only in a studded choker. After being ... -
A New Director and A New Direction. "Adam Cook, State Theatre Company's Artistic Director for 2005, Removes the Veil".
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-11-12)It is midday on a Friday and the crowd is gathered in the Dunstan Playhouse for the launch of the State Theatre Company’s 2005 season. There’s the usual mix of subscribers, sponsors, arts heavies and media, as well as ... -
New Works for New Audiences. "Come Out Festival 2003". [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-04)Come Out has been reappearing every two years since 1974 which my add-ups tell me is just short of thirty years. This is an extraordinary achievement and a tribute to the continuing commitment of artists, administrators, ... -
New Works for New Audiences. "Come Out" 2003. Australian Festival for Young People. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-04)The 2003 Come Out program, compiled by Artistic Director Sally Chance, has stronger and more varied theatre offerings than we have seen in some time. This is, in part, because of the presence of two works from the freshly ... -
New Works for New Audiences. Recent Releases on CD. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2002-01)It has just been another outstanding year for Paul Kelly. He has released no less than four albums, each of them indicative of the rich variety of his gift. "…Nothing But a Dream" (EMI) is his latest studio work, full of ... -
A Night of Crime and Punishment. "Shakespeare's Villains" by Steven Berkoff. Festival Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2005-03-04)In the polite world of English theatre Steven Berkoff has always been the bad boy, and, even at sixty eight, he is still a bit of a lad. We owe much to him - for the turbulent rough magic of "East", for the curdled wit of ... -
Offering Double the Amount of Fun. "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare. The Bell Shakespeare Company. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-10-15)In director John Bell’s fast-paced farce, Ephesus is a Turkish town with (in Jennie Tate’s lively design) splodgy whitewashed walls, market stalls and sinister types in Commedia half-masks. The fez is the chapeau of choice, ... -
Offering Singular Perspectives. "Laughing Wild" by Christopher Durang and "The Getaway Bus" by Ingle Knight. Bakehouse Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-09)After a late scratching from Series Three of Bakehouse Theatre’s "Festival of One", comes the welcome addition of "Laughing Wild", a thirty minute monologue from American writer Christopher Durang. Taking its title from ... -
Opposites Attract. "The Dissociatives". Thebarton Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2004-07)The link between Daniel Johns and dance mensch Paul Mac is both surprising and entirely likely - even if they are half a generation apart, and one comes from teenage grunge, and the other from the Very Cool end of the ... -
Other People's Festivals. "Edinburgh International Festival", "Melbourne Festival", and "China Shanghai International Arts Festival" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-01)Over a ten month period last year I had the chance, including the Adelaide Festival in March, to attend four international festivals. I haven’t had such an opportunity before and it will be about the time of Halley’s Comet ... -
Over the Border. Melbourne Festival [Preview]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-10)The Melbourne International Arts Festival opens this month from 9th to the 25th. This is the second year for Robyn Archer as Artistic Director and, because she learnt a great deal from her time at the Adelaide Festival, ... -
Parallel Worlds. "Blondie". Thebarton Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2003-09)Video may have killed some radio stars but it was the absolute making of Blondie. From their first appearance in 1977 at the height of the Punk and New Wave incursions, this New York pop band not only made their mark but ... -
Picture Book Quality. "PoM pOm" by Pamela Allen. Patch Theatre [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-09)It is often said that young people deserve the best theatre. And yet, just as often, they end up with the very opposite. Not only have we seen a reduction in the amount of work on offer in all age ranges in the past five ... -
A Play in Inverted Commas. "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare. State Theatre South Australia [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-12)There is nothing else in all of Shakespeare that has caused the sort of qualms that "The Taming of the Shrew" has over the past twenty years or so. The subduing of the fiery Katherina by her mocking suitor Petruchio and ... -
Pleasure In Company of Women. "Boston Marriage" by David Mamet. State Theatre Company of South Australia [review]
(The Australian, 2004-10-21)In the late nineteenth century when two women lived together, it was known as a Boston marriage - reflecting both the feminist sophistication of the arrangement and its prevalence in that American city. Boston Marriage is ... -
Power Games. "Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter. Brink Productions. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-09)In this Brink Productions version, director John O’ Hare has shown that the play works every bit as well on stage as it does in the Forest of Dean . Co-designed by O’Hare and Justin Pennington the set has a stylised mound ... -
The Power of Two Funny Men. "The Pleasure of Their Company" by Shaun Micallef and Glynn Nicholas. The Arts Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-04-01)There have been plenty of comedy double acts in recent times - HG and Roy, John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, Mick Molloy and Tony Martin, to name just a few. But, on first glance, Glynn Nicholas and Shaun Micallef seem an unlikely ... -
Private Lives. "Closer" by Patrick Marber. State Theatre. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 1999-09)In Closer there are few pipes and timbrels but there's plenty of mad pursuit. Everybody gets to lead and then to follow. Everybody gets a chance to win and everybody loses. Dan, living with Alice, now wants Anna who takes ... -
Purveyors of Delectable Derision. "Kit and the Widow", "Peter Berner 'Live'", and "Greg Fleet". Adelaide Cabaret Festival [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-07)Kit and the Widow are smutty and smart, topical and very tight. Sex toys, laptops, Joan Rivers’ plastic surgery are all fair game, as is The Leopard, a straight song about Hesketh-Harvey’s native Malawi. And, after ... -
Recent and Revisited. CD Reviews. [review]
(Adelaide Review, 2000-08)CDs reviewed. Eric Chapus, Skin, Columbia Sony. Martin Gretschmann, Rocket in the Pocket, Matador/Festival. Dynomite D, By the Way, Trifecta Festival. Fusebox, Jolly Mukhertee, Madras Cinematic Orchestra. Senan's ...