Live, Music, Reviews, Stage Human Requiem music review (Adelaide Festival) Ben Brooker Brahms composed his German Requiem between 1865 and 1868. His longest composition, with text not in the requiem’s traditional Latin …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Us/Them theatre review (Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre) Ben Brooker On 1 September 2004, around 30 terrorists demanding Chechen independence attacked School Number One in Beslan, North Ossetia. The date …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre The Great War theatre review (Adelaide Festival Centre) Ben Brooker In 2013, Hotel Modern presented Kamp at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, a production that, in the Dutch company’s signature …
Opera, Reviews, Stage, Theatre Adelaide Festival reviews: In the Club, Far Side of the Moon and Hamlet Ben Brooker We are told, as we are told every year since it went annual in 2012, that Adelaide Festival of the …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Vale theatre review (State Theatre Company of South Australia) Ben Brooker I once heard a notable playwright say during a workshop she was giving that Australian plays don’t often deal with …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Rumpelstiltskin (Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide) Ben Brooker Fresh from her critically lauded feature film debut, Girl Asleep, Windmill Theatre co-artistic director Rosemary Myers turns her undoubted talents …
Opera, Reviews, Stage Cloudstreet review (Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide) Ben Brooker Five years and multiple workshops in the making – the first of them ‘self-funded’ by director Gale Edwards and composer …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Gorgon (Space Theatre, Adelaide) Ben Brooker The State Theatre Company of SA’s annual education slot used to be filled with old plays that were deemed useful …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre The Popular Mechanicals review (Space Theatre, Adelaide) Ben Brooker It goeth thus: Shakespeare’s most noted amateur thespians, the rude mechanicals, gather to rehearse A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s play-within-a-play Pyramus …
Reviews, Stage, Theatre Mortido: Colin Friels and the 'war on drugs' (Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide) Ben Brooker “Existence,” hard-boiled cop Grubbe (Colin Friels) tells Jimmy (Tom Conroy), a drug addict and pusher who Grubbe is courting to …
