Secret Show by Emma Knights
Emma Knights is well known around town. Known and respected interstate and internationally too, but it’s around Adelaide that she has mostly made her impact. Emma works tirelessly to support local artists, products, services and venues. With a host of awards such as SA Tourism awards, she is a rare breed of creative and talented, as well as selfless and supportive. So often found behind a piano, behind a signer, behind other artists,...
The Hipster: A Musical For People Who Don’t Like Musicals
Reviewed by Brigitte Rennie The Hipster premiered in an iconically Australian venue – a brewery. Run by the Little Bang Brewing Company the site/venue is stylishly industrial. An inspired choice. I’ll avoid repeating the production notes as the show plot does what it says. Setting up a pretentious laneway bar in Hindley Street next to a strip club is a recipe for disaster. There is a happy ending where all the characters resolve...
Winefulness
Reviewed by Brigitte Rennie Tash York loves to entertain. No doubt. From the moment she entered until she left the The Parlour tent her enthusiasm exuded forth and touched the audience. Tash also loves to drink wine and the show is all about this aspect of her life with a brief foray into relaying her reunion with her birth father and her happiness in finding love. If you do not like drinking wine, being tea total or just a...
The Wild Side
When I was a teenager the crowd I was hanging with had discovered Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’. We listened to it on good old fashioned vinyl. This was, after all, the eighties. It was an iconic album, intense, creative and whimsical. We were just into the music then and didn’t really get the entire scene that this artistic creation represented. Fast forward many years and I’m walking up several flights of stairs at the...
YUCK Circus
Reviewed by Emma Kew. The only thing packed tighter than space at Gluttony this Adelaide Fringe is whatever is smuggled in the briefs of the YUCK Circus gals. With bulges brimming, six young female performers strut into the tent as hyper-masculine Aussie parodies with the seediest little moustaches you’ll see this side of the Torrens. With a quintessentially Australian sense of humour we are shown several, all too familiar,...
Happily Ever Poofter
Who doesn’t enjoy a good love story? Well this is an amazing love story, but wait…..there’s more to this enchanting tale than your standard love story. Across society we are well versed with Disney and fairytale themes of true love, princes and princesses and gallant knights rescuing maidens in their quest for love and happily ever after lives. But what if dating Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White didn’t...