Category: Reviews

The most wonderful time of year

Late summer/early autumn, February-March, is the best time to visit Adelaide, South Australia. Often regarded as ‘conservative’, the city comes alive during the twin events of the Adelaide Festival and Fringe. For three Covid-conscious festival seasons audiences and artists alike laboured under a cloud of anxiety. Would their show be cancelled? Would a key cast

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The Murray Delta Juke Joint

Down a dark deserted street in an industrial estate, across the rail tracks, the metal cold underfoot, in what feels like the wrong side of town. The streetlights feeble against the night. It feels like South Chicago. That’s the whole point. Inside it’s as you might hope. The blast of warm sultry air, laden with

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Rum, sun, shadows and elephants

Adelaide Fringe weeks 3-4. So much in these last two weeks of Fringe, just before the coronavirus brought all other major events to a close. There may be a travel ban affecting Spain but Bandaluzia Flamenco recreated the emotion, energy and drama of Spain in a small tent in the Gluttony venue hub. A virtuoso

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