Tag: Adelaide
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REVIEW: Heathers the Musical, Adelaide Fringe 2018
Originally published in Glam Adelaide Colour-coordinated croquet bats have never looked so good. In fact, the last time primary colours were used to this effect was The Wiggles. Fans of the original 80s teen flick (slasher flick? I guess it defies genre) will not disappoint in this musical update, which features all of the violent […]
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REVIEW: Vale, STCSA
Originally published in Glam Adelaide Thumbnail image credit: Chris Herzfeld Welcome to Vale indeed. Being presented with this wickedly dysfunctional family is less of a welcome, and more like ten rounds in a boxing ring. Taking place in the penthouse suite of a premier Vale hotel, the New Year celebrations of the Vale family are interrupted by […]
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REVIEW: La Vida Breve/Gianni Schicchi, SOSA
Originally published in Glam Adelaide Thumbnail image credit: Bernard Hull First, a quick admission—I’ve never seen an opera in my life. I’ve never even had the impulse to go and see one. I’ve listened to a few choice selections, mostly Maria Callas, but it has never crossed my mind to actually go to the opera. […]
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REVIEW: The Last Five Years, Segue Productions
Originally published in Glam Adelaide The Last Five Years is not an atypical musical—there’s no flash, no show-stopping numbers, no ostentatious costuming or choreographed dancing. There’s not even much of a plot to speak of, but don’t let that put you off. It is much more intimate (and all the more rewarding for it), as the […]
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REVIEW: Enoch Arden
Originally published in Glam Adelaide John Bell and Simon Tedeschi’s imagining of Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Enoch Arden seems, at first, to be a bawdy sailor’s tale, told in the back corner of a smoke-laced pub and set to piano. It doesn’t take long, however, to realise what is really on display here is a stripped-back account of […]
Callum McLean 