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2 weeks ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Presented by: G&S Society of SAReviewed: 22 May, 2025 An unusual early “flop” for Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along didn’t gather momentum till nearly 20 years after its initial opening in 1981. Not one of the more regularly performed works in the Sondheim canon, it is delightful to see our own G&S Society tackle a lesser-known work. Merrily tells the story of Frank, Charley, and Mary, over the course of 20 years and the gradual disintegration of their close friendship.
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2 weeks ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: Text PublishingAriel lives in a block of flats in Jaffa/Tel Aviv. A freelance journalist, he regards himself as liberal-minded. After all, he is great friends with Alaa, his Arabic neighbour. One morning, after he and Alaa have a night out together, he is unable to contact him. Worried, he uses a spare key to get into Alaa’s flat to find it untouched, and Alaa nowhere to be found. When he visits his favourite Arab-run café, it is closed, and the owners missing.
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2 weeks ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
It is a freezing cold winter in Winnipeg Canada. Two children, Negin and Nazgol, find money frozen in the ice on the ground. Wanting to extract it they enlist the help of a passing stranger, who then takes the money for himself. Meanwhile, Massoud is leading a tourist group around on a strange tour of the city, while in Quebec, Matthew is disillusioned with his government job and resigns to return to Winnipeg. These three stories will somehow intersect.
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1 month ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
British playwright Arnold Wesker was renowned for his gritty, realistic, works. His first play, and most produced, The Kitchen, is set in the large commercial kitchen of a cafe, over one day. It follows the lives of waiters and cooks, as they struggle to hold onto their dreams in the face of relentless and often meaningless, work. Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios has chosen to reimagine this piece in New York. Raúl Briones stars as Pedro, a skilled cook with a fiery temper.
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1 month ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: Simon & SchusterOn the 8th of May this year, we observe (‘celebrate’ being perhaps too glib a word) the 80th anniversary of VE Day: the day that the Second World War ended in Europe. To honour that day, Simon & Schuster are releasing a book of short stories by one of the living masters of narrative fiction, Graham Swift. Twelve Post-War Tales begins with the aftermath of said war in The Next Best Thing.
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1 month ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: Pan Macmillan AustraliaBrynn is in her late 20s, married to Eric, and the mother of a young daughter Jenny. Settling down to a suburban existence after a wild adolescence has not been easy for her, but she runs her household with admirable precision. Still by her side is her long-term bestie, Lisa, who harbours a secret passion for Eric, and an equally secret jealousy of Brynn’s life. One night, Brynn suffers a fall out in the snow, which leaves her in a coma.
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1 month ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: Quarto BooksSince humans became travellers, we have wanted to write about it. And since writers first emerged, they have wanted to travel. And for many of us, reading is in itself a form of armchair travel. Travis Elborough is regarded as one of our great pop culture historians, and has published several quirky books, as well as many freelance articles. In Writers Journeys that Shaped Our World, he has curated 35 trips taken by writers as varied as the travels themselves.
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1 month ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Palace Cinemas in collaboration with German Films is delighted to unveil the 2025 programme of the HSBC German Film Festival. Opening the festival is one of Germany’s biggest box office hits, the romantic comedy Long Story Short (Feste und Freunde – Ein Hoch auf uns!) featuring an all-star cast including Laura Tonke, Ronald Zehrfeld and Trystan Pütter. A hilarious and poignant celebration of love and friendship, the film follows a group of friends through a series of special occasions.
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2 months ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: BloomsburySara Hussein is a successful archivist, happily married, with twin babies. One day on returning to the US from a conference in London, she is detained at the airport by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration. The DreamSaver chip she and thousands of others have had implanted in their brains has made huge improvements to their sleep quality. But it has also allowed the RAA to use data analytics on their dreams to predict if they are planning to commit a crime.
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2 months ago | 
glamadelaide.com.au | Tracey Korsten
Feature image credit: BloomsburyOne of the greatest novelists currently working in English, Colum McCann never fails to surprise. His new novel Twist is no exception. Journalist Anthony Fennell has landed an unusual freelance gig: to write about the ships that go out to sea to repair fibre-optic cables laid deep under the ocean. These are the cables that keep cyberspace running, and breaks can interrupt service for days, or even weeks. He goes to Cape Town to meet the Chief of Mission, John Conway.
