The Life and Death of King John
by William Shakespeare
The Eleventh Hour
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide. February 25.
Tickets $25 – $49. Bookings BASS 131 246
or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 7.

Vs Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
The Border Project and Sydney theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Adelaide. February 27.
Tickets $16 -$39. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until March 6.
Wharf 2 season opens March 20

Even though, in its fiftieth year, the Adelaide Festival’s theatre program is a diminished one, it …

Womadelaide 2010
Botanic Park
March 5-8.

Murray Bramwell previews highlights from this week’s Womadelaide

To mark the new decade, and fifty years of the Adelaide Festival, Womadelaide 2010 is bigger than ever. Stretched to a fourth day, it now finishes on the night of the March Monday holiday. The program has added eight more acts, four international, four Australian, and claims performances from more than 500 artists from 27 countries.

Womadelaide remains one of South Australia’s most successful major events. …

Not to be missed are – (I don’t really approve of stars but life is short in March at Festival and Fringe time)
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Five stars)
The Sociable Plover (Four stars)
The Event (Four stars)
Death in Bowengabbie (Four stars)
Fiona O’Loughlin (Four stars)
Heroin(e) for Breakfast (Four stars)

Well worth seeing
3xperimentia: Live Cut (Three and a half stars)
Based upon a True Story (Ladykillers) (three and a half)
Adventures of Alvin Sputnik (three and …

February 19 to March 14

Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)

The Fringe has been under way for a week now. The carny playground, of sideshows and spruikers, big tops and little, known as The Garden of Unearthly Delights has been going even longer. Sprawled across Rundle Park just over the road from the city’s favourite café and restaurant precinct, it is again proof that the Fringe captures the whole city. Last Friday an estimated 80,000 lined …

Adelaide Fringe Theatre 2010

Previewed by Murray Bramwell

Like its dirigible-sized, tu-tu clad lunar mascot in Victoria Square, the Adelaide Fringe expands ever more. This year’s model claims 705 events, the largest ever here, and second only to the Edinburgh mothership anywhere in the galaxy.

All this plenitude is a boon to Adelaide audiences, with ticket pre-sales going bananas and the throng to the Garden of Unearthly Delights already well established.

The Fringe has the best of all worlds. Those …

Both events are now very much underway.

The Northern Lights have been switched on and the Festival opera Le Grande Macabre, big in every sense – budget, ambition and scale – has opened. The ASO is in fine form with Ligeti’s challenging but often hypnotic score and the carnivalesque nature of its boisterous storyline – part medieval morality, Spanish surrealism, Jarry’s randomly absurdist Ubu and Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, it is a stew of avant garde references and turbulent comedy, …