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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All of the attempts to create intimacy within this play are highly successful – the audience will leave feeling as though they really known these characters, like they have truly spent this special day with them.
Alchemia is guaranteed to provide different performances each night, so you will have no idea what is coming at you. However, I can say this is a discerning group that only picks the A cuts, and they will guarantee you a wonderful night of cabaret goodness.
Limbo will tease and tickle you, caress you and spank you. These guys are so hot they make porn look like Play School.
Get along to at least one of Sound & Fury’s shows if you like Shakespeare, Hitchcock, vaudeville, improv, comedy, laughter, or any combination of the above. You won’t regret it.
Love & Other Acts of Theft is one hour of four short plays, linked solely by well-placed Gilmore Girls references. Together they provide F I N T’s talented ensemble the opportunity to show the Adelaide Fringe audiences what they’ve got – and that’s skills, Adelaide. Acting skills!
This is a totally immersive experience. The audience shuffles in to the bunker in the almost dark, with dirt at their feet and lanterns swinging above their heads. There is barbed wire and sandbags, and we sit on wooden benches lining the canvas walls while the action plays out inches in front of us.
The wide eyed innocence of Sherlock and Yelland in their delivery of sometimes quite vulgar innuendo is both charming and hilarious.
You’ll emerge from the tunnels blinking in the sunlight, still mentally absorbed in the piece and looking at the world around you a little differently. If nothing else, isn’t that what theatre should achieve?
Swamp Juice is the story of a nasty little man with an evil cackle who enjoys tormenting the snails, snakes and birdies of the swamp he boats on. Until today, that is, when his world suddenly gets turned inside out.
