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Reviews
Because I'm a nosey parker who loves statistical geekiness, I've decided to move my review posts to wordpress, they can be found here: http://noplain.wordpress.com/ I'll probably still post them flocked here, along with other personal posts ( Read more... ) -
Belated Reviews: The Sapphires and Man Covets Bird
The Sapphires
A Company B and Black Swan State Theatre Company Production
Presented by the State Theatre Company and the Adelaide Festival Of Arts
At (the beautifully renovated) Scott Theatre
Man Covets Bird
Presented by Slingsby at the Adelaide Festival of Arts
At the Space Theatre
Partly a year of mixed fortunes, overall the standard of productions in ( Read more... ) -
Review: The Boy With Tape On His Face
The Boy With Tape On His Face
Presented by Mr & Mrs Wills, at the Adelaide Fringe
At the Bosco Theater
The Boy With Tape On His Face was an award-winning, extended-run, sell-out hit of the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival, and it’s not hard to see why. Relying heavily on audience participation, Sam Wills presents a performance as delightful as it is ( Read more... ) -
Review: Toy Symphony
Toy Symphony by Michael Gow
Directed by Geordie Brookman
Presented by the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Queensland Theatre Company
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Review: Avenue Q
Avenue Q
At Her Majesty's Theatre
Presented by Arts Asia Pacific and PowerArts in association with the Adelaide Festival Centre
Written by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty
Avenue Q is kinda like Seasame Street. It’s the older, wiser brother of Sesame Street, the one that has discovered swearing, and porn, and sex. Lots of sex. Things aren’t ( Read more... ) -
Female writers and directors in Adelaide, 2010
Many 2010 theatre seasons for Adelaide have now been announced, and after I noticed the lack of female writers and directors in shows I saw last year, I wondered if I was just choosing these shows or if it was actually representative of the state of the arts in Adelaide - as many bloggers and arts commentators have shown to be the state of things ( Read more... ) -
Shows and Performances 2009
January
11th - Billy Elliot - Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
14th - Wicked - Regent Theatre, Melbourne
28th - The Importance of Being Ernest - Ridiculusmus - Her Majesty's Theatre
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My Year In Theatre, 2009
This year I saw 61 performances of 53 productions, which is ridiculously excessive and I have no idea how I pulled that off, and the list of shows I wanted to see but didn’t get to is probably that long again. Of those 53 productions, I thought 38 were great, and while several were disappointing, over all I was very pleased; there were only two I ( Read more... ) -
Review: Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elise, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe
Presented by Newtheatricals and Dainty Consolidated Entertainment
At the Princess Theatre, Melbourne.
Jersey Boys is an utterly infectious show, bursting with love and happiness and has left me with songs in my head and a smile on my face. Telling ( Read more... ) -
Review: Gorge 09 - Saturday 21st Nov
Day Three: Footsoilders by Nicki Bloom
Presented by Brink Productions with the Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE Program, as a part of the Feast Festival
At the Space Theatre
The third and final night of Gorge 09 gave us Nicki Bloom’s Footsoilders presented by Real Time Collaborators and Stone/Castro. Bloom’s script was, I felt, the strongest ( Read more... )