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Tom Thum "Beating the Habit"

Tom Thum Garden of Unearthly Delights. 21 February 2012This show is exactly what the doctor ordered for the Fringe!  The diverse opening night audience of ‘Beating the Habit’ performed by Tom Thum (of the Tom Tom Crew) comprised the very young to the young at heart and those on the wrong side of fifty, all however were astounded by the sonic antic ...
 
Labels: Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Comedy, Music, The Garden, 2012

The Lonely Man

The Lonely ManLa Boheme. By Jamie Jewell. 22 Feb 2012There is something captivating about the eccentricity of a person who differs from socially accepted norms. The way they move; the way they look; the way they interact, grabs our attention and we watch, fixated with interest we cannot explain - nor attempt to. The lonely man, created by Jamie Jewell, ...
 
Labels: Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Cabaret, 2012, La Boheme

Elixir featuring Katie Noonan

Elixir featuring Katie NoonanGarden of Unearthly Delights. Sunday 19 February 2012 Calling Katie Noonan a singer is a bit like calling the Pope a Catholic. Yes it’s true but even so it’s such an understatement that you cannot begin to imagine.Ms Noonan appeared with her two compatriots Stephen Magnusson on guitar and Zac Hurren on soprano saxophone, collectively know ...
 
Labels: Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Music, 2012

To Silence

To SilenceThe Street Theatre. 16 February 2012By Subhash Jaireth. 'Kabir' - Directed by Caroline Stacey. 'Chekhova' - Directed by Camilla BlundenWritten by Canberra poet, Subhash Jaireth, this intense production is a lament on the lives of two very different historical figures: Kabir, the 14th Century mystic poet from India, and Maria Pavlovna Che ...
 
Labels: Canberra, The Street Theatre, 2012

SOAP – The Show

SOAP – The ShowThe Garden of Unearthly Delights, 19th Feb – 18th MarchMarkus Pabst’s circus genius returns to the Adelaide Fringe via his resurrected 2007 creation SOAP – The Show. Pabst is one of the kings of cabaret variety, having directed La Clique as well as many of his own highly successful shows.Bringing together a cast of international performer ...
 
Labels: Dance, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Comedy, 2012

Barry Morgan's World of Organs

Barry Morgan's World of OrgansGarden of Unearthly Delights - 18 February 2012“Barry Morgan’s World of Organs” is a joyous and well put together show and the capacity audience loved every minute of it.  Barry Morgan (aka Stephen Teakle) takes to the stage in a safari suit, wears his hair big and his smile even bigger.  There are shades of Bob Downe, Liberace, Don Dunst ...
 
Labels: Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Comedy, Music, 2012

Hairspray Adelaide Cast Announced

Hairspray Adelaide Cast AnnouncedFollowing a Facebook Post from Producer/director Matt Byrne the news of the 2012 Adelaide Cast is now available for MBM's SA Premiere production of Hairspray."We had a fantastic rollup for Auditions and have managed to cast the entire show," Byrne said. "We are blessed to have David Gauci who understudied Edna Turnblad in the professional ...
 
Labels: Theatre, Musical, Adelaide, Matt Byrne Media, 2012, News

Jersey Boys Announce Adelaide Tour

Jersey Boys Announce Adelaide TourThis week it was published by Adelaide Now that the Arts Minister John Hill will release dates and introduce the cast of The Jersey Boys at the InterContinental Hotel on FridayBased on a true story, the show tells how four boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest US pop sensations of all time.The show features more ...
 
Labels: Theatre, Musical, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, 2012

Filmmakers Fire Up For Tropfest’s 20th Birthday!

Filmmakers Fire Up For Tropfest’s 20th Birthday!Movie Extra Tropfest Australia has announced the 15 lucky filmmakers who will light up screens across the nation for Tropfest’s 20th competition. Finalists include second generation filmmaker Matilda Brown, Damian McLindon, director of the self-help documentary The Secret, and Tropfest’s youngest ever finalist, 16 year old star of the Fox ...
 
Labels: Adelaide, Film, 2012, Tropfest
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Adelaide Fringe 2012

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Gypsy

GypsyGin and Vodka Productions. Star Theatre One - 24 Nov to 2 DecVince Fusco and Josh Penley’s latest collaboration as producer and director is on the musical Gypsy, which traces the life of famous American burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee.  Born Rose Louise Hovick, the musical’s story follows her from her youth, when she performed in the shadow ...

100 Lunches

100 LunchesThe Adelaide Repertory Theatre. Arts Theatre - 23 NovJack Sharkey wrote 82 published plays, some of them in collaboration – like this one with Leo W. Sears.  Thankfully Sharkey passed away in 1992 and won’t be writing any more clunkers like 100 Lunches, but you can still look up such enticing titles like, Jekyll Hydes Again, How Green Was ...

The Elephant Song

The Elephant SongBakehouse Theatre - 16 NovThe best thing about this play is that it led to my personal discovery of The Elephant Song.  In The Elephant Song, Eric Herman sings how elephants swing through trees and a kid interrupts and says no, that’s monkeys.  So Eric says, oh yes, monkeys, I like how they swim in the ocean, and then the kid says, no tha ...

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney ToddThe Demon Barber of Fleet StreetThe Hills Musical Company. Stirling Theatre. 12 Nov 2011Sweeney Todd is Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece: a musical thriller in which every nuance of character, plot and lyric content is perfectly judged. Credit here is also due to Christopher Bond, whose play Sondheim took as the model for the work. Bond had ...

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To Silence

To Silence

To SilenceThe Street Theatre. 16 February 2012By Subhash Jaireth. 'Kabir' - Directed by Caroline Stacey. 'Chekhova' - Directed by Camilla BlundenWritten by Canberra poet, Subhash Jaireth, this intense production is a lament on the lives of two very different historical figures: Kabir, the 14th Century mystic poet from India, and Maria Pavlovna Che ...

Dust of Uruzgan

Dust of UruzganFred Smith at The Street Theatre. 4 Feb 2012With every war fought comes a million stories that don’t make it to the evening news. We’ve seen it with World Wars I and II, Vietnam, and now we’re seeing waves of personal tales come out of the Middle East – ready to become the next generation of military legends.Dust of Uruzgan is just such a ...

The Velveteen Rabbit

The Velveteen Rabbit Free Rain Theatre Company, The Courtyard Studio at the Canberra Theatre Centre  - 15 January   When I mentioned to some people that I was going to see The Velveteen Rabbit, I instantly saw a wave of nostalgia wash over their faces. Based on the 1920s book of the same name by Margery Williams, Free Rain Theatre Company have now bought ...

Straight to You

Straight to You Triple J’s Tribute to Nick Cave - The Royal Theatre. 16 Nov 2011Music Director – Cameron BruceIf I were Nick Cave, I’d be feeling pretty chuffed right now, as this stellar ensemble of Australian musicians paying homage to the man may have just bumped his status from iconic to legendry.A refreshingly organic production, each performer brou ...

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Hugo - by Martin Scorsese

Hugo - by Martin ScorseseDirected by Martin Scorsese. 126 MinutesMartin Scorsese’s Hugo may seem to be an unlikely film from the director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas and The Departed, but what begins as the story of a young boy who lives in the walls of a Parisian train station ultimately becomes a meditation on the history of cinema.After the death o ...

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New York“I just try to document what I see.” – Bill CunninghamSince the 1970s, Bill Cunningham’s photographs have appeared in the ‘On the Street’ and ‘Evening Hours’ sections of the New York Times.  Cunningham may seem like an unlikely subject for a documentary feature as, in his own words, the octogenarian photographer dresses like a “slob” in b ...

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian WoodWritten and Directed by: Tran Anh Hung From a novel by: Haruki Murakami Music by: Jonny Greenwood Cinematography by: (Mark) Lee Ping Bin Vietnamese born filmmaker Tran Anh Hung has long excelled at complex dramas often told from the point of view of social outcasts.  In films like The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) (which was a best foreign ...

I'm With You: Live

I'm With You: Live Josh Klingerhoffer is with Anthony, Flea, and Chad as the Red Hot Chili Peppers take CologoneSession Duration: 138 minutes (The actual concert is about the last 100 minutes)Over the last twenty-eight years, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have only officially released three concert films on home video.  The new concert I’m With You from Colog ...

 

Music Reviews

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Season Opening Concert

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Season Opening ConcertAdelaide Town Hall. 3 Feb 2012As wonderful as music recording technology is, it can never substitute for the live experience of the concert hall.  Music should not be a single sensory experience.  It should be heard as well as seen and felt, and it should be visceral.  The concert hall can provide all those things, and more, as did the op ...

Asa and Féfé

Asa and FéféSo Frenchy, So Chic The Space Theatre. 19 Jan 12Bukola Elemide, known by the stage name ‘Asa’, is a Nigerian-born vocalist who grew up in Lagos and Paris. Playing tracks from her latest album, ’Beautiful Imperfection’, Asa delighted the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Space Theatre audience at the latest summer musical interlude entitled ‘Ses ...

ABC Classic FM Classic 100 Twentieth Century Countdown

ABC Classic FM Classic 100 Twentieth Century CountdownAdelaide Festival Centre. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - 3 DecEvery year since 2001 the best radio station in the word – nay, in the universe both seen and unseen – has surveyed its listeners to create a top 100 list.  The station of course is ABC Classic FM, and this year’s survey identified the best of the twentieth century – allegedly!  ...

Zephyr Quartet With Soprano Greta Bradman

Zephyr Quartet With Soprano Greta BradmanThe Meeting House, Pirie Street - 22 NovThe classy Adelaide based Zephyr Quartet comprises Belinda Gehlert(lead violin), Emily Tulloch (violin), Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg (viola) and Hilary Kleinig (cello, and the group’s artistic director).  They are a fusion of contemporary and classical–in their looks and their musicality.  Their program ...

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