AUSTRALIA - ADELAIDE THEATER REVIEWS

It was clear that bringing this group back for a return season was a very good move on the part of the Festival Director, Jacinta Thompson, with the audience leaving the performance with big smiles on their faces....

The Light Surgeons, from London, join with Ng Chor Guan, Hands Percussion, and Rhythm in Bronze to create an audio-visual work, SuperEverything, that looks at, well, just about everything Malaysian....

David Mealor directed Angela Betzien's The Dark Room, set in a room in a three star motel in an unnamed location in Australia's Northern Territory, for Flying Penguin Productions. This was made possible with the help of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, through their Umbrella programme....

Punk cabaret star, Amanda Palmer, formerly one half of the duo, The Dresden Dolls, performed in Adelaide for one night only, with two great support acts....

Heart to Heart was a concert of two very different cycles of love songs by Adelaide composer, David Kotlowy. The first was for guitar and tenor, whilst the other was for a small Javanese gamelan group, tenor, and soprano....

Ute Lemper first visited Australia two decades ago and, for her 20th Anniversary tour, she has brought something new, a set of songs that she has composed in collaboration with Argentinean bandoneonist, Marcelo Nisinman, setting the love poems of Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda...

The sixth concert in the Evenings at Elder Hall series features the three choirs from the Elder Conservatorium in a feast of music by the supremely talented Benjamin Britten....

Not According to Plan, brings together an extremely creative group of people, resulting in a phenomenal production. Central to the work is the life of Xiao-Xiong Zhang, who also appears as a dancer singer and actor....

The T'ang Quartet, comprising Ng Yu-Ying, first violin, Ang Chek Meng, second violin, Lionel Tan, viola, and Leslie Tan, cello, presented a very varied concert of six pieces by four contemporary composers....

Her Majesty's Theatre's stage is turned into an intimate theatre in the round, with a maze of bamboo to be traversed by the incoming audience, the arrival in the centre revealing a large round table at which sit three young ladies in panda outfits, shuffling decks of cards....

The audience was totally enthralled by this interpretation of the story of Nyai Ontosoroh; her life journey from childhood, gaining strength through adversity, to eventually achieve independence and control of her own destiny....

Each year the Adelaide Festival Centre presents the unique and exciting OzAsia Festival, and the opening performance this year was this remarkable work, Meeting With Bodhisattva, from U-Theatre of Taiwan....

This is the tale of Laura Jesson, who gets a speck of coal dust in her eye whilst standing on the railway platform, and Alec Harvey, the handsome young doctor who administers first aid...

Many of those responsible for the worst war crimes managed to escape to South America. This play puts the focus on the children of those escapees....

William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled his mid eighteenth century story, Vanity Fair, "a novel without a hero", as every one of his characters has flaws, some more than others, which he makes clear in his tale....

This performance will have you smiling, laughing, foot tapping, clapping, and going home talking about it for ages after....

State Opera of South Australia started their main stage programme for the year with a powerful production of Salome, with a libretto by Richard Strauss based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play. Richard Strauss, of course, also wrote the score of the opera...

Sir Noel Coward's witty play about a couple who cannot live together, but cannot live without one another, is being given a chance to shine again at the ARTS Theatre, thanks to the Therry Dramatic Society....

Milla is fourteen, and is not going to live to be fifteen due to that insidious disease, cancer. Danielle Catanzariti portrays the dying Milla, a tragic figure, stirring the sympathy of the audience and dampening eyes of quite a few....

This play follows a young boxer from Bankstown, Billy "The Kid" Dib, as he prepares himself for the world featherweight title fight and we meet several other boxers along the way. These are their own words....

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild is celebrating its 75th Anniversary, and so William Shakespeare seems an appropriate choice of playwright for such an auspicious occasion....

Vika Bull and a seven piece group, The Essential R&B Band, present a musical documentary of the life of the late Etta James, one of the most important names in Rhythm and Blues, and perhaps also the most tragic....

Thomas Hardy wrote several novels set in the imaginary county of Wessex, occurring in the late 1800s, and Far From the Madding Crowd is presented by Independent Theatre in an adaptation by Mark Healy....

Noel and Gertie is filled with humour, wit, and occasionally poignant moments, songs, dances, and excerpts from his plays, with all of the sparkling dialogue that that entails....

The word 'dysfunctional' is barely adequate to describe the Dockerty family, who live in the working class Sydney suburb of Redfern in the 1950s, the subject of This Old Man Comes Rolling Home....