Reviews

In Bangarra’s remarkable history, its second artistic director Frances Rings takes a logical next step by forging a collaboration with First Nation artists from another country. From across the Tasman, Maori choreographer Moss te Ururangi Patterson elicits from 16 indigenous Australians an enthralling dance voyage through the winds, waters and people of his home country around Lake Taupo in Aotteroa.   

Swing on This opened their 10th Adelaide Cabaret season 70-minute show to a packed, adoring audience at the Dunstan Playhouse. The self-described ‘kings of swing’ features Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, The Ten Tenors), Matt Lee (Frozen, Mary Poppins), and Ben Mingay (Shrek, Sweeney Todd) and new member Bert LaBonté (Moulin Rouge, The Book of Mormon).

The future of theatre is ensured if it is left to performers of the young artists of the Free Agents Youth Theatre! Lambs is an extremely powerful piece of theatre that is sure to move any theatregoer.

Written by Director Sean Riley in collaboration with his students, it explores the residents of a fictionalised country town named St Jude during World War I, when many boys and young men sought an adventure across the world by signing up to the Australian Imperial Forces despite being below the minimum age of enlistment.

Here is a tale of a woman’s (Helen Morse) relation to Nature: her childlike immersion in it – mud between her toes, skin red from icy water - her delicate, wondering observation of nature’s variety, the sunlight through the trees, the sensual feel of a breeze on her skin, her awareness of its silence filled with sounds – birds hidden and seen, the rustle of leaves, the trickle-flow of water – all as she walks and jumps from rock to rock and explores along beside Innocence Creek…  Her own little vulnerable world.  And then the story tells of her