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June 19, 2007

Outside the Square

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Gyan and Leunig:
Billy the Rabbit
Dunstan Playhouse
June 10.

Point Blank
Dave Graney
JB Room
June 13

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Tina C and Auriel Andrew
Banquet Room
June 14

Shane Warne: The Musical
by Eddie Perfect
Dunstan Playhouse
June 17.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2007
Adelaide Festival Centre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is wintertime and the living is again easy at the re-activated Festival Centre. Despite the nippy nights, devotees of the cabaret form – …

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June 30, 2006

Cabaret Funnies with a Cutting Edge

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Tina C in Manifesto
Christopher Green

Double Exposure
Marty Murphy and Flacco

Keating !
Casey Bennetto and the Drowsy Drivers
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2006
Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell

There have been many snazzy ladies in the Cabaret Festival but none quite like Tina C. She is the leggy creation of the surprisingly leggy Christopher Green, a UK actor and comedy scriptwriter who has waxed and wigged and put a ten gallon hat on the newest ultra-patriotic queen of country music. …

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June 19, 2006

Cabaret Festival 2006

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Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
Until June 24.

Here’s to the Ladies
Christine Andreas
Festival Centre Stage
June 13.

Camille
La Fille du Cirque
Space
June 13.

Waterloo Sunset
Barb Jungr
Banquet Room
June 14.

Keating !
Casey Bennetto and the Drowsy Drivers
Space
June 15

Tina C in Manifesto
Christopher Green
Banquet Room
June 14. Tickets : $25- $30
Bookings BASS 131 246
Until June 24.

Murray Bramwell

It’s wintertime and the living is easy. The Adelaide Cabaret …

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July 08, 2005

Cabaret Funnies – Fond and Furious

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iBob
Bob Downe

We Don’t have Husbands
The Kransky Sisters

The Big Con
Max Gillies and Eddie Perfect

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2005
Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, in part, arose from the need to separate from the avalanche of stand-up comedy that dominates the Fringe. However, there has been no shortage of funny business in the Festival Centre recently in a program that has included the CNNNN jokers, Sandman and Flacco, Wil Anderson – and Bob Downe.…

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June 13, 2005

Top drawer program

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

12 June
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2005

Cabaret

Murray Bramwell

I Protest!
Robyn Archer, Paul Grabowsky and the Agitators
Space Theatre,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
10 June

Paul Kelly A-Z
10 June
Space Theatre
Until 15 June. Bookings BASS 131 246
Tickets $ 42 – $ 50

Australia’s Leading Ladies
Festival Theatre,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
11 June.

It must be a portent that Adelaide’s drought broke the same day that the fifth Cabaret Festival opened. It is clear that this annual fixture …

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July 01, 2004

Cabaret Funnies

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

2004

Kit and The Widow
Banquet Room

Peter Berner ‘Live’
Dunstan Playhouse

Greg Fleet
Radioville : Population 1
Dunstan Playhouse

Murray Bramwell

I can understand why baritone Kit Hesketh-Harvey is Kit, but why is pianist Richard Sisson the Widow ? These and other questions are not answered in the duo’s song and satire show but with its sleek, fast-paced tux-and-tails camp, you don’t even think to ask. No cow is too sacred, no area too no-go for these purveyors of …

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June 15, 2004

Long cool drink from Brels’ well

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

13 June
Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2004
Cabaret

Murray Bramwell

The Songs of Jacques Brel
Mich en Scene

Space Theatre,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
11 June
Until 17 June. Bookings BASS 131 246
Tickets $ 34 – $ 40

Farewell Concert
Combo Fiasco

Dunstan Playhouse,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
11 June.

With 26 performances of its two week program already sold out, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival is bringing a winter boost to the often dark Festival Centre. The opening weekend alone has some …

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June 16, 2003

Adelaide Cabaret

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16/17 June, 2003
Murray Bramwell

All Het Up
Banquet Room
Adelaide Festival Centre
until 14 June

Hymne a Piaf
Caroline Nim
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre
until 15 June

The Adelaide Cabaret Festival still has a week to go and the newly refitted Festival Centre is jumping – as well it might hosting 400 artists and 152 performances over just seventeen nights. With a program including crooners, comics, smooth jazz exponents, a mind reader, even a techno-haka group, the Festival …

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July 01, 2002

Cabaret Season

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Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2002
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Despite the fact that the weather has been wintry and the Festival plaza still looks like the Blitz – the decrustation process apparently taking forever – the Centre itself hasn’t looked so busy since… the last Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

As we don’t need reminding, the Centre was not the focus for much of this year’s Adelaide Festival and, otherwise, usage has been sporadic. So, with sixteen nights of programming – in the …

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June 10, 2002

Rocky Horror and a Pack of Droll Models

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10 June, 2002
ADELAIDE
Cabaret

Murray Bramwell

Sleepless Beauty
Christa Hughes , Imogen Kelly, Ruby May Fox, Minx Contortionista.
Michael Lira, Neill Duncan and Svetlana Bunic
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre until 9 June, 2002
The Studio, Sydney Opera House 12 – 22 June.

The Rat Pack
Paul McDermott, Mikey Robbins and Sandman
with the Club Luna Band
Festival Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre
June 8.

It may look like the blitz outside, but in every available performance space inside the …

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