In this week’s episode of The Adelaide Show, we reflect on the panic around the COVID-19 pandemic and how to navigate the information in an evidence-based way. Our return panellists are Nigel Dobson and Robert Godden. Yes, forgive the hasty Photoshop botch job,...
In this week’s episode of The Adelaide Show, we reflect on data privacy and ethics and whether or not those terms exist in the real or virtual world. To guide us through this discussion will be thought leader, Andrew Andrews. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week...
Mullygrubs is a Fringe show that sits somewhere between the unsettling imagery of the puzzling, Adelaide-made, pre-schooler TV show from the 90s, Mulligrubs, and the definition of mulligrub, which means to complain or sulk or feel down. Performers Harry Thompson and...
Amid all the official Adelaide Fringe acts within Gluttony, there are a number of informal shows available for your pleasure as you wander or stagger between bars. One such venue is The Runaway Theatre, run by Imaan Hadchiti. This tiny caravan-based theatre seats...
Death is the great finishing line in the race of life and here stands our late friend, Tomas, as the winner. And, thus, one of Michael Burgos’ characters gets entangled in metaphors as one of six mourners delivering eulogies in The Eulogy, a parody of funeral...
Good theatre gives us a glimpse into our inner world. However, in the case of Enterprise, we get a glimpse into the inner workings of all those corporate skyscrapers that tower over us in most modern cities. Behind the impressive structures of steel, glass, and...
There’s no family business like show business, that seems to be one of the central themes of I, AmDram. Hannah Maxwell comes from a long line of am-dram devotees, stretching back to great grandparents. With such a heritage of “amateur dramatics” in...
Having met Nicky Boy Nick Stevens recently for an interview on The Adelaide Show Podcast, it was quite an eye opener to witness a gentle, quiet guy transform into a truly “bad daddy” on stage. And such is the joy and attraction of stand up comedy. Someone...
Comedy is generally a subjective thing, especially stand up. In a show like Boats and Bogans, audiences should expect a lot of racially-based humour and much “punching down” on the bogan front. And although that is the main fare, there were plenty of...
Children’s theatre is a hard gig these days with productions in the recent DreamBIG Festival raising the bar beyond that of much contemporary adult theatre. Thus, companies like PaperBoats need to draw deeply from the well of imagination to create theatre on...
We’ve seen these stereotypes before, the silver-tongued, middle-aged salesman, the timid husband who feels downtrodden, and the domineering wife, but in the hands of local playwright, Jimmy Lyons, they are equipped with wit and laser-focussed dialogue. The King...
In this week’s episode of The Adelaide Show, we reflect on the Adelaide Fringe mayhem and tricks from behind the scenes. Nicky Boy Nick Stevens, comedian/painter former Victorian College of the Arts Graduate, who became inspired to start painting again when his...
