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Shift of Wind Needed Before Pinafore Sails. "HMS Pinafore" by Gilbert and Sullivan. Carl Rosa Company. Her Majesty's Theatre [review]
(The Australian, 2004-11-08)The Carl Rosa Opera Company occupied a distinguished part of English operatic history from its establishment in 1873 through to the late 1950s. It presented the first English productions of Carmen, Lohengrin and Aida and ... -
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 ... -
Cabaret Funnies - Fond and Furious. "iBob" by Bob Downe, "We Don't Have Husbands" by the Kransky Sisters, and "The Big Con" by Max Gilles and Eddie Perfect. Adelaide Cabaret Festival [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-07-08)The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in part, arose from the need to separate from the avalanche of stand-up comedy that dominates the Fringe. However, there has been no shortage of funny business in the Festival Centre recently ... -
Goat Leg Soup. "Muse". Thebarton Theatre [Review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-09-28)It is only eight months since we saw UK band Muse at Big Day Out, but now they are back with more fans and a lot more fanfare. Their stocks have risen with the release of their latest album, Absolution, a recent tour with ... -
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 ... -
Victim of Digressions. "Frozen" by Bryony Lavery. State Theatre Company of South Australia. Space Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-07-22)Whenever we wonder about the nature of human nature we invariably turn to criminal behaviour, especially that of predatory serial killers, for speculation and explanation. Are such crimes, especially against children, proof ... -
Getting the Band Back Together. "Cream at the Royal Albert Hall, London" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-05-27)When it was first announced in the English press that the 1960s cult group Cream was reforming for four nights at the Royal Albert Hall there was an outpouring, you might say, of dairy metaphors. Would they be as fresh as ... -
Running, Jumping, Not Standing Still. "Come Out Festival 2005" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2005-04-01)Come Out, the Australian Festival for Young People has been showcasing new work for more than thirty years and its achievement is impressive. For much of that time, Come Out was not just the leading festival for young ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Repressed Memory. "Back to My Roots and Other Suckers" by Barry Humphries. Her Majesty's Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-07)Back to the roots for Humphries, and much of his audience, means back to suburban memory- of brand names, street names and the sounds and mnemonic smells of Times Past. These times, when they constituted the Present for ... -
Running on Plenty. "Jackson Browne". Festival Theatre [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-05)Fourteen guitars - all in a row. The show is billed as solo acoustic but it looks like the set up for the Eagles. Jackson Browne admits it is “obnoxious” for one person to have quite so many instruments but, he confides, ... -
Voices in an Awkward Pitch. "Projections 1" by Peter Finlay, "Blowing It" by Stephen Papps and Stephen Sinclair, and "Festival of One" Bakehouse Theatre. [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-08)The Festival of One monodrama series has been a fixture at the Bakehouse for a number of years now. Previously, it ran in November but artistic director, Peter Green has, this year, divided it into three seasons in May, ... -
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 ... -
Sons of the Father. "The Duck Shooter" by Marty Denniss. Brink Productions and the State Theatre Company South Australia [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-08-15)Brink Productions did a good thing encouraging Marty Denniss to revise for the stage his script of the Australian feature film "Erskineville Kings". Cinema’s gain has also been the theatre’s and the result is "The Duck ... -
Festival's Defining Moment. [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2004-04)Let’s start with "Gulpilil". A project initiated by Festival director Stephen Page and Belvoir Company B director Neil Armfield, this theatre monologue featuring one of Australia’s most distinguished screen actors was ... -
Audio with Pictures. "Music DVDs" [review]
(The Adelaide Review, 2003-06)The arrival of the DVD has been rapid in Australia. We are well-known for our speedy take-up of new technology but the saturation of the market by the digital versatile disc has been particularly swift even by our standards. ... -
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, ...
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