Review – Riot City Wrestling: Megaslam
All of the clichés were on display; the knocked down referee, the steel chair shot to the cranium, the comebacks from nowhere, the open challenge and surprise return.
Category: Reviews
Review – Hot Dub Time Machine: Big Red Button
Hot Dub Time Machine is a show with a basic philosophy: bring people together through music and dance. In order to do this the insatiable host DJ Tom Loud encourages party goers to dance, drink, sing and share the love, and every person in the Paradiso tent did just that.
Review – Classical vs Jazz: The Ultimate Harp Battle
The overall impression is that too little attention has been paid to the staging and lighting… and the whole effect of the piece needs to be re-imagined and reworked with the audience firmly in mind.
Review – Suck It Up
Mickster the Trickster has an impressive confidence and stage presence. His quirky sense of humour and ability to surprise you, just when you think you’ve figured it out, are a good indication this up-and-coming magician is definitely a talent to watch out for.
Review – The Sexy Detectives: High Status Idiots
The best laughs came from a squeaky kitchen door that interrupted proceedings, which on each occasion yielded nervous relief. When the furniture provides more laughs than the performers you know it’s a bad show.
Review – Outback Homosexual Serial Killer
Dion Teasdale’s Outback Homosexual Serial Killer attempts to take audiences on the journey of bank teller Devon Baxter’s descent into internalised madness, documenting his metamorphosis from a neurotic city dweller to an eccentric madman with sexually violent and homicidal tendencies.
Review – The Trials and Tribulations of Mr Pickwick
This is what theatre is all about: witnessing actors perform seemingly impossible portrayals of raw emotion, where a man or woman can speak, act and perform lightning-quick costume changes on the fly while making you laugh, cry, cringe and laugh all again in such a short space of time. And space, for that matter.
Review – Phatcave
A good show to keep you kicking on into the wee hours of the weekend. Be entertained by a well-curated set of the Fringe’s finest and lesser-known comedy acts.
Review – Naked Girls Reading in The Garden
While the ladies offer audiences plenty to admire, do not expect them to gyrate for your entertainment. Centre stage is instead given to eight trashy, fun and/or romantic texts – a range that includes celebrity biographies, Marquis de Sade, Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk.
Review – Bunny and Mad Dog Get High
Sure, this is essentially a series of stories about a couple that liked to get high a lot; however, Lisa-Skye seems to be using these stories to hint at the duality of a person’s character and the contradictions that may exist there.
Review – Pride and Prejudice
I consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur of Pride and Prejudice adaptions, sequels, re-imaginings and homages… I mention this only to give myself some authority when I say that this was a really good adaption of the novel.
Review – Josh Pyke
This is the kind of music that keeps you warm in winter. Or on a chilly February night in Adelaide.
Review – Hallelujah! 80 Years of Leonard Cohen
The quality of the musicianship of the duo is not flawless, but the songs are performed with such earnestness and evident joy that these flaws can be overlooked. Music snobs that want exact replication can pay $150 to see the great man perform in person. Music lovers, however, will enjoy the history lesson and the mere enunciation of his lyrics by a pair of musicians that have been touched the power of those words.
Review – A Simple Space
A Simple Space strips its circus genre down to the very bones, leaving the audience to focus on the real main attraction – the absolute skill of the performers.
