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1 week ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Since his early-career appearance in Adelaide during the dying days of the Big Day Out, Gary Clark Jr. has forged a devoted Australian following. Clark, who met his Australian wife at Coachella, delivered a performance that verged on the spiritual at Hindley Street Music Hall (15 April), showcasing his latest album, 'JPEG Raw'. The set list was a blend of new tracks from 'JPEG Raw' and some of his classic hits.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Less than a week after the final performance of their unique and endearing real life love story, 'Love Life Laundry', the duo from Circus Sorbet takes on one of cinema’s most prolific genres, the spy action film, and still manages to make their show unique and endearing.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
In 'Psychopomp', Adelaide clown Poppy Mee summons a god in a quest to discover her life’s story, and to quell her existential dread about what happens when her story ends. By the show’s end, it becomes clear Poppy’s story is telling stories.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Just so you know what to expect from House of Sand’s 'Manage Your Expectations': it’s likely the most visually and verbally innovative show you’ll see all Fringe, but language is an inadequate tool for preparing you for where Eliza Sanders and Charley Allanah’s imaginations will take yours. New Zealand/Aotearoa-based dancer Eliza Sanders begins by meticulously and pedantically explaining what 'Manage Your Expectations' will be about: heartbreak, abortion, ancestors and colonialism, love.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
In 'It Is I, Seagull', Lucy Mellors harmonises clowning with opera singing, her own operatic career with the glass ceiling-shattering tale of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. The recurring motif uniting it all is the patriarchy and how it can gatekeep and disempower women. 'It Is I, Seagull', begins with a gag: Lucy Mellors wheels in her suitcase with her costume; she mixed up the time of the performance.
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1 month ago | 
eventalaide.com | James Murphy
In Club Amour, a triptych of works by Pina Bausch and Boris Charmatz, performed by Pina’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, now led by Boris, explores our universal need to seek out other bodies to cling to and how this longing, this thirst for connection, can lead to manipulation, dependence, isolation and despair. Adelaide has had an enduring love affair with modern dance innovator Pina Bausch. We are the home of Australian Dance Theatre, which was once led by Bausch collaborator Meryl Tankard.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Atlanta-born singer songwriter Chan Marshall, more commonly known as Cat Power, has built a career with soulful original releases like 'The Greatest', but also through unrecognisable cover versions of artists such as Bob Dylan on 'The Covers Record' and 'Jukebox'. At the Adelaide Festival, she again recreates Bob Dylan’s infamous 1966 bootleg recording from 'The Royal Albert Hall'; like Dylan, she was electric.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Less than a year after their debut performance at the Adelaide Festival Centre, The Australian Calisthenics Theatre Company have refined their new art form, delivering a slick Fringe tribute to legendary musical theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh, with the aid of accomplished tenor JD Smith.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
Dramatic Irish singer Camille O’Sullivan, who first won over fans as part of La Clique at Adelaide Fringe in the 2000s, has always imparted every line of every song with palpable and genuine emotion. Following the pandemic years, and the loss of close friends Shane McGowan and Sinead O’Connor, O’Sullivan’s cup of painful feelings is running over, and in 'Loveletter', she poured these, and her soul, out on Her Majesty’s Theatre stage.
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1 month ago | 
scenestr.com.au | James Murphy
At a time when conspiratorial thinking is rampant, and when those who feel they have no place in society gravitate towards charismatic con men, great Australian playwright Stephen Sewell and actress Helen O’Connor take us back to a similar time in 'Partying With Manson’. In 'Partying With Manson', audiences spend an hour with one of the 1970s' most reviled killers: Manson Family member Susan Atkins, who was convicted of the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
