Reviews

Veterans of 22 Fringe seasons, Comedy Inc brought 90 minutes of polished professional stand-up comedy to arguably Adelaide’s most beloved live performance pub venue with its latest Gov Sunday Session. The performance space is cosy, with different sorts of seating for about 80 people, who also had access to the pub’s beautiful old bar facilities. Staff were warm and welcoming and the raised stage, and professional sound and lighting rig meant that the audience could easily see, hear and enjoy the event.

You would be hard pressed to find two more different one act plays than those in Wanneroo Repertory’s A Double Bill, currently playing at the Limelight Theatre. The Greening of Grace is a family drama, set in contemporary Australia which deals with huge issues. 150 Years of Roman History in 30 Minutes is the World Premiere of a locally written comedy, and set in Ancient Rome.

Wolf Play is about a Wolf at the centre of a family drama – a catalyst who brings to the surface all the flaws and troubles of flawed and troubled people.  He is a wolf, played by Yuchen Wang; a lone wolf - who speaks, who howls, who tells of wolf lore and of wolf needs – and he is also a six-year-old boy, sold on the internet to a new family, represented by a puppet.  If all that sounds confusing, it is not confusing on stage in this intricate and gripping play about the need for connection.

Before a die-hard audience of 700 loyal fans, this group heralded as “Australia’s best tribute act”,