Reviews

Everybody knows you should just buy tickets for any show Stewart D'Arrietta announces. In this year's version of My Leonard Cohen, D'Arrietta dwells even more deeply in the songs he's chosen for his beautifully balanced set. Along the way, he breathes more life and...

Undertow delivers what the title promises. Your spirit will gradually be grasped and pulled under by surges of temper, confusion, despair, and frustration as our couple, played by Jasmine Fairbairn and Clayton Storey, navigate some stormy weather in their...

In Marc Ryan The Beautiful Bogan in Honey; I Shrunk The Bogan, we meet a thinking bogan. And, no, that should not come as a shock. Marc Ryan successfully argues that popular culture has wrongly pigeon-holed bogans as idiots. Instead, he says, we should hold Darryl...

"Come Sail Your Ships" - A Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Tribute is indeed a show that is born of gratitude to Nick Cave, pays him great respect, and pulses with admiration. The Ukulele Death Squad has curated an interesting set of Nick Cave songs that showcases the...

That Daring Australian Girl is a delightful play that is well elocuted and charts the story of women's suffragist leader, Muriel Matters, in a polite, polished drawing room style. Elocution lessons and recitals gave Muriel an avenue for earning money, leaving Adelaide...

Tim Ferguson: A Fast Life On Wheels trundles us through Tim's life, from the heady, freezing days of busking in Canberra to his now accomplished position of teaching comedy and being sought out to produce comedy as he travels the world. For anyone who grew up with The...

In Isolate & Izolál we explore whether or not humans should colonise Mars. There is something about our genetic make up and evolutionary momentum that suggests it is inevitable that we try, however Isolate & Izolál is a meditation, a reflection, a poetic...

Living on a prayer is one of those Australian comedy shows that sits in the "wog" genre. Frida Deguise relates stories from her life as a Lebanese Muslim growing up among "Aussies". She commands the stage and delivers her material with bravado. There is a core group...

Theatre for the time poor is a great concept for the Adelaide Fringe. In one hour, you get a mix of snippets from plays by local playwrights, performed by local actors, and directed by local directors. An indulgent joy for locals is the dialogue in some of the pieces...

Martha Lott takes on the character of a US Air Force pilot who becomes grounded due to pregnancy and then freefalls through unexpected turbulence and awakenings as she re-enters the Air Force after her maternity leave. Grounded is rich with irony as the warrior's...

Bin Laden: The One Man Show will leave you pondering the question, when does idealism morph into fanaticism or delusion? In this sympathetic treatment of arguably one of the world's most significant anti-heroes, we get a non-tabloid portrait of a man who was one of...

The new venue at The Whitmore was literally only hours old when its cherry was popped by a three course comedy review. And alternative it was, as in alternative to the usual comedy show that mostly involve men. For this was a show by three women. Courtney was first up...