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Adelaide Cabaret Festival – Modern Maori Quartet

As a musician, I am well aware of the challenges that face performers when trying to create atmosphere, connection with the audience and a pure sound. The Modern Maori Quartet (MMQ) did just that in just over 1 hour and ...

ACF Christina Bianco - photo by Claudio Raschella

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Christina Bianco – Me, Myself and Eve...

June 12 - Cabaret, Latest Reviews

Ms Bianco can be described with just one word… Dynamite. Another packed show, congratulations Ali McGregor on this choice. Christina the self described “’short person’ conducts her performance at a frenetic p...

ACF Em Rusciano - photo by Claudio Raschella

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Em Rusciano – Difficult Woman

June 12 - Cabaret, Latest Reviews

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is one of my favourite festivals in Adelaide. Every year I can’t wait to see who is in the program and when I saw that Em Rusciano was bringing her Difficult Woman show to the Festival Theat...

Apokalypsis

June 12 - Latest Reviews, Performance

Apokalypsis is such a curious title, presumably a portmanteau of Apocalypse and Ellipsis. They’re so conceptually incompatible; one comes on in the white heat of revelation, and the other is an indication of time passing...

Danny and The Deep Blue Sea

June 9 - Latest Reviews, Theatre

Who saves who when you’re both in the water? Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is a beautiful and moving work of theatre. Danny (Charlie Cousins) and Roberta (Laura Maitland) meet in a run-down bar and begin to talk, finding a...

Hatched: National Graduate Show 2018

June 7 - Exhibitions, Latest Reviews

“All art is quite useless.” So said Oscar Wilde in the preface to his excellent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray; and so says the Hatched National Graduate Show through the vicissitudes of mediums on display in the exhib...

my sister feather

June 4 - Latest Reviews, Theatre

My Sister Feather is both exploration and interrogation of the filial bond between two sisters. There’s beauty in playwright, Olivia Satchell’s brutality, as layers of guilt and obligation are inexorably stripped away fr...

Hotel Sorrento

June 4 - Latest Reviews, Theatre

Hannie Rayson’s Hotel Sorrento draws its name from its principal setting, a seaside retreat on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Its concerns include how others see Australians, and how we see ourselves. The play was firs...