The Barefoot Review - Adelaide Theatre Reviews

Adelaide Festival. Malthouse Theatre. Her Majesty's Theatre. 5 Mar 2014
Tom E. Lewis became mainstream since playing the eponymous role in The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith in 1978.  Recently, he collated the issues of land, entitlement and family  [ ... ]

Adelaide Festival. Shona Reppe. Odeon Theatre. 5 Mar 2014
This is the Best Show for Children - Theatre Awards UK in 2012.  Creator, designer and performer Jona Reppe takes her place amongst a framework filled with instrumentation and devices of [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. Radio Adelaide. 5 Mar 2014
What a great idea. A radio show which is a theatre piece about a radio show. Or a theatre piece which is a radio show about a radio show. All of it presented inside a radio studio.
This is Zoe McDonald's of [ ... ]

Adelaide Festival. Windmill Theatre. Space Theatre. 4 Mar 2014
Girl Asleep is the final take in Matthew Whittet's trilogy of teenage angst plays produced by Windmill Theatre and directed by Rosemary Myers. While stuffed full with relevant tweenie th [ ... ]

Adelaide Festival. Stone/Castro. Adelaide College of the Arts. 4 Mar 2014
Jo Stone and Paulo Castro, of Europe, have chosen the 2014 Adelaide Festival for the world premiere of Blackout.  Interestingly, a favourable review by dB Magazine was al [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. Star Theatres. Davine Interventionz. 6 Mar 2014
To say that this is the best show I have seen in a long time, would be understating the quality of this production. Producer and Director, David Gauci, Choreographer, Shenayde Wilkinso [ ... ]

Adelaide Festival. A Homerʼs Coat project. Dunstan Playhouse. 4 Mar 2014
Earlier in the day, reefing through a copy of Homerʼs ‘The Iliad’, I wondered how one actor would bring to life this classic tale of war, treachery and machismo... 550 pa [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. The Bakehouse Theatre. 4 Mar 2014
In 1998 Dawson Nichols performed his own one-hander ‘I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe’ at the Fringe and it won the Advertiser’s inaugural Fringe Award.  Sixteen years on, Nichols is back with  [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. Mixed Doubles Sketch Comedy Quartet. Holden Street Theatres. 3 Mar 2014
  Direct from GB, Mixed Doubles brings good old fashioned sketch comedy to the Fringe at Holden Street. The quartet of Will Close, Megan Smith, Paul Aitchis [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Paradiso Spiegeltent.
Hans like a pop star is more like it, these days.
Matt Gilbertson packed the Spielgeltent to its rafters for his first show in the Garden of Unearthly Delights. The queue sna [ ... ]

Windmill Theatre. Space Theatre. 2 Mar 2014.
Fugitive is the first work created in Windmill's trilogy of plays concerning the awkwardness and fascination to be found betwixt childhood and adulthood.  While mainly playwright Matthew Whittet's ta [ ... ]

The Complete Motets of J.S Bach. Adelaide Festival. Adelaide Chamber Singers. St Peter’s Cathedral. 3 Mar 2014 (Program 1) 5 Mar 2014 (Program 2)
When eminent biologist and author Lewis Thomas was once asked what message he would choose to send fr [ ... ]

Adelaide Festival. Adelaide Town Hall. 3 Mar 2014
The Kelemen Quartet hails from Hungary, a land-locked country, and so it is no surprise they should be lured to the famous beaches of Sydney for a bit of R&R when the occasion recently presented  [ ... ]

Adeladie Fringe. Presented by Live and Let Die. The Big Slapple. 25 Febr 2014.
The 48 Lounge in the Convention Centre is an impressive venue, and it was decked out to set the scene for a night of 007, but it was a disappointment.
Singers Grant Pear [ ... ]

Adelaide Fringe. Presented by Marianna Grynchuk. Pilgrim Uniting Church. 23 Feb 2014
With the afternoon sun streaming through the stained glass windows of the Pilgrim Uniting Church, a capacity audience was treated to a superb all-Chopin concert by  [ ... ]

Adelaide offers an abundance of festivals which used to centre predominantly around the Fringe, Festival and Womadelaide, but over the past few years this great southern state has been expanding its repertoire. One festival that was added to the calendar in 2011 was the Cellar Do [ ... ]

Lunch Review
Asian
After a brief absent stint from the restaurant scene to focus on my own culinary creations, I felt that it was time to jump back on the horse and bring you another semi-regional review. With my friend Jarrod flying in from Melbourne, I saw the perfect opportuni [ ... ]

Dinner Review
Authentic Italian
After a relaxed lunch at Mr Mick’s Kitchen and an afternoon probing the township of Clare for local produce to take back home, it was time for Alexandra and I to move on to our dining destination in the state heritage listed, copper mining town o [ ... ]

The d’Arenberg Dozen   Any person with an interest in wine living in Adelaide or surrounds will know the name d’Arenberg. It’s not a local phenomenon either; wine lovers’ across Austra [ ... ]

I have been privileged to know three generations of the Tyrrell family, Murray (deceased), current head of the clan Bruce, and his son Chris now involved in the business. There are other family memb [ ... ]

Kutcha Edwards is a celebrated Indigenous Australian musician, and member of the stolen generation.
Born of the Mutti Mutti people, Kutcha was taken from his family by authorities when he was 18 months old. After spending 14 years in institutions, K [ ... ]