Sunday, March 8, 2015
Royal Croquet Club, Adelaide Fringe festivalKimmings and partner Tim Grayburn have made a darkly funny, beautifully painful show which takes as much care of its audience as its subject matte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Space theatre, Adelaide festivalSilvia Gallerano is utterly compelling in this one hour stream of consciousness about a woman who unapologetically takes up space in the world Continue readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Adelaide Festival theatre, Adelaide festivalAurélien Bory and the artists of Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger dance with illusion and politics in this intense showcase of circus skill Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41AMSunday, February 15, 2015
From late night fringe Shakespeare where the actors get progressively drunker throughout the performance to Umit Bali, former illegal immigrant turned stand-up, here are the shows you won’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
On the eve of the fringe we round up five festival hotspots, from the evergreen Garden of Earthly Delights to part-club, part-installation Surrender Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50PMThursday, February 5, 2015
With a new version of the James Joyce classic in development, epically long theatre is back on the menu again – are you in for the long haul? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Dunstan Playhouse, AdelaideNescha Jelk rips away from the familliar story of racism and jealousy, using Shakespeare’s script to explore a masculinity that thrusts violence among men – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMMonday, October 27, 2014
Waterside, Port Adelaide While the press focuses on conservative politics and religion, David Williams amplifies a variety of Christian voices in this subtly devised verbatim show Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
This is Not Art, Newcastle, NSWThis festival of new performance in a gutted department store offered audiences a taster of new talent along with their toasties Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11AMSunday, July 6, 2014
Adelaide Festival TheatreGiant legs, bunny-hops and a fist pump bring out the surreal hilarity in the fairytale but the dancers are never outshone There is little about Alexei Ratmanskys Ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
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Studio, Neon festival, MelbourneMelbourne's leading independent theatre festival stages a high glitz and high camp adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons In 2013, Neon took Melbourne's thea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Dunstan
Playhouse, AdelaideA play about bullying comes across like a stage version of Mean Girls, and will resonate strongly with its young audienceJesikah (Kate Cheel) and Denise (Elizabeth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56AMFriday, May 9, 2014
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Arts Centre, MelbourneThough plagued by technical issues, this powerful piece brings a new voice to dance Carly Sheppard stands under a spotlight. Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Next Wave festival, fourtyfivedownstairs, MelbourneHex is a powerful work that looks at the Aids crisis from a generation away, and explores its legacy and impactJames Welsby was born the sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Next Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneA Belgian company's attempt to create a real-life fight club causes more embarrassment than insurrectionary fervour They tell us the whole story: Bel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMNext Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneA dancer and a bodybuilder run in circles around a stage in a show about the pleasure and pain of physical exertionDancer Natalie Abbott and bodybuil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57AMNext Wave festival, Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneFluctuating between poetry, drama and physical theatre, this play needs to show rather than tellIn a small Australian town, young men Sean (Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Next Wave festival, Arts House, MelbourneSet in a stylised version of the future, this show may be loud and fast, but its overall meaning is confused Madonna Arms, from theatre company Im Tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15AMThursday, May 1, 2014
Next Wave festival, Theatre Works, MelbourneTold by a radio producer taking the stage for the first time, the story of the Palestinian translator linked to the Munich massacre is gripping, e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMThursday, March 13, 2014
Adelaide festival: Her Majesty’s TheatreThis work combining snippets of Coleridge’s text with songs from The Tiger Lillies and film from Mark Holthusen is less than the sum of its partsJ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
From love in a dark, sad time to a contemporary take on sex in this final instalment of our fringe diary for 2014. Plus: how an audience can make a show so much more special Jane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Humorous take on a particularly strange group of staff, guests and callers at a community radio productionJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44AMA genuinely quite extraordinary puppet show; Stella gets confronting; and the lads are just unfunnyJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02AMMonday, March 10, 2014
We bump into Festival Freak, watch two women and a Tasmanian tiger, and listen to stories on a Torrens cruiseJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29AMSunday, March 9, 2014
Adelaide Fringe festival: The German ClubThe audience gets its chance to connect with events of the day in this show that delivers with humour and warmthJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
A Canadian circus show that’s just kidding around; blindfolded women with washing gloves on their feet; and a magician for drunksJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31PMA female boxer fights for her place in the Olympics in this fearless one-woman show that lands plenty of emotional punchesJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35AMAerial stunts take over the streets; an Italian classic gets a theatrical makeover; and 45 minutes of uproarious clowningJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Swinging a mallet at the Croquet Club; hula hoops and paper umbrellas – and, to finish the night, strip-skippingJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Floating storytelling, a one-lady rape comedy and Spiegeltent glitz – you’re sure to find something you like at the FringeJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
As she gets set to play her ninth Mardi Gras, Australian comic Caroline Reid tells Jane Howard about camp, being offensive – and having to compete with GrindrJane Howard
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:22AM 
