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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 …

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A legal approach to the decline and fall of the United States

Kevin Brianton

Music, Reviews

Sleaford Mods ‘All That Glue’ review: a necessary album for fans and newcomers alike

Benjamin Woods

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‘The Shifting Landscape’ review: Western Victoria crime novel showcases joy in storytelling

Rosemary Sorensen

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How did we get here? Why artists became so dispensable

Neil Pigot

Books, Music, Reviews

Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge: a fascinating read for fans and newcomers alike

Tony Thompson

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