Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2001

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The recent Adelaide Cabaret Festival has been a curious event. Or at least it has come into being for some rather curious reasons. In part, it is a reaction to last year’s Fringe. Certainly there were those close to the Fringe who thought that the popular comedy acts around the Rundle Street epicentre had swamped everything else – particularly those theatre companies, some of them international, who struggled to break even with …

1991

The Life and Death of Sandy Stone

Barry Humphries

Her Majesty’s Theatre, February, 1991.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Barry Humphries once described Sandy Stone as a decent, humdrum little old man. It remains an apt assessment. Drab, suburban, habitual, Sandy epitomised the prosaic domestication of the Anglo-Australian male. When Barry Humphries held a mirror up to nature it was the obsessive, sexless, life of Sandy Stone which appeared in the glass not the gangly, heroic fiction of Chips Rafferty. …

Sod ‘Em and Tomorrow
Pat Wilson and Adrian Barnes
Lion Theatre

Pat Wilson and Adrian Barnes have a heap of music and stage credits between them. Not only has Pat Wilson performed and recorded her own songs but she is in demand as a musical director and voice and piano teacher. English born, Adrian Barnes has clocked up extensive flying hours in musicals in London’s West End and with the English National Opera and, since becoming resident in Australia, has …