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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …