Michael Griffiths – By Request
Michael Griffiths
Le Cascadeur
Garden of Unearthly Delights
February 15 – 24. 60 mins.
Michael Griffiths – By Request is fun for the asking. Performing for a short season in Le Cascadeur before moving on to another show with Carlotta, and then back to GC duetting with Amelia Ryan for the Newton-John and Allen tribute, Livvy and Pete , Griffiths is having a busy Fringe.
And it is not surprising. He is a very winning …
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Outstanding crop of creativity
Build a Rocket
by Christopher York
Stephen Joseph Theatre and Tara Finney Productions
February 13
Holden Street Theatres until March 17
Games
by Henry Naylor
Gilded Balloon and Redbeard Theatre
February 13.
Holden Street Theatres until March 16.
Extinguished Things
by Molly Taylor
February 13.
Holden Street Theatres until March 3.
Bookings : adelaidefringe.com.au or phone 1300 621 255.
Duration: each show 60 minutes.
With Friday night’s Street Party and Yabarra : the Gathering …
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Murray Bramwell
That Daring Australian Girl
Written and performed by Joanne Hartstone
Holden Street Theatres
March 6. Until March 18.
Muriel Matters, the Adelaide-born suffragette, her name itself a slogan, was a most remarkable woman. Her progress from Parkside High School and the Music Conservatorium of the University of Adelaide to the performance stages and, even more dramatically, the political arenas of London, is fascinating to follow. Writer and performer, Joanne Hartstone knows this only too well and …
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Next Stop Romance as Edinburgh imports cut straight to the heart
Love Letters to the Public Transport System
by Molly Taylor
February 14.
Holden Street Theatres until March 1.
Borders
by Henry Naylor
Gilded Balloon and Redbeard Theatre
February 14.
Holden Street Theatres until March 18.
Fallot
Company 2
February 17.
Empire Theatre, Royal Croquet Club
Until February 25.
Bookings : adelaidefringe.com.au or phone 1300 621 255.
Duration: each show 60 minutes.
The Adelaide Fringe has switched on. With …
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More Adelaide Fringe
Murray Bramwell
Fauna
Ukiyo, Royal Croquet Club
February 26.
FOUR stars
The creatures in Fauna have come from a variety of circus habitats.
Matt Basquet has a background in martial arts and acro/movement. Imogen Huzel, also from the UK but based in Stockholm, has links with the Belgian Poive Rose company; Finnish trapeze artiste, Enni Maria Lymi works with NoFit State Circus; and the married duo – Rhiannon Cave-Walker (a member of Gravity & Other …
Murray Bramwell
The Adelaide Fringe has been going more than a week now and has spread its ever-larger network around the city. With more than 1300 events, 5,200 participating artists and an estimated turnout of 75,000 punters at the opening weekend parade, the proud claim to being second only to Edinburgh’s mega-Fringe event is further strengthened. The number of events clamouring for attention is astonishing – 290 comedy shows, 248 music performances, 143 theatre listings , 132 cabaret events and …
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Theatre
Scorch
by Stacey Gregg
Prime Cut Productions
February 15.
Holden Street Theatres until March 19
Angel
by Henry Naylor
Redbeard Productions
February 15.
Holden Street Theatres until March 19
We Live by the Sea
by Alex Howarth and Cast
Patch of Blue
February 17.
The Black Forest, Royal Croquet Club
Until March 19.
Bookings : adelaidefringe.com.au or phone 1300 621 255.
The Fringe has once again inundated Adelaide’s inner city and environs and, after Saturday night’s luminous …
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(Ukiyo, The Royal Croquet Club, 9.30 until March 14. Four and a Half Stars)
Penny Arcade, aka Susana Ventura, has an impeccable New York CV. She performed in Warhol/Morrisey films, she hung out as a teenager at Max’s Kansas City. She was there at Stonewall and in the terrible AIDS epidemic in the 80s and 90s. Last time she visited Adelaide as part of the 1994 Adelaide Festival, she performed wearing only an American flag. She also brought …
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Echoes
by Henry Naylor
The Arch, Holden Street Theatre Company
In association with Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
February 10. Until March 13.
The Last Time I Saw Richard
by Cat Commander
five.point.one
The Bakehouse.
February 16. Until Feb 23.
Red Ink
by Duncan Graham
Tuxedo Cat, Perske Pavillion
February 16. Until Feb 23.
It is not yet “mad March” in Adelaide and already the Fringe, the gargantuan, carnivalesque doppelganger to the Festival has roared into action. For artists and …
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