In these days when it is only too easy to re–present the famous and the familiar, it takes a director with courage and imagination to dig up something new and extraordinary.
Acropolis Now, launched the famous character – (Efthimia) Francesca “Effie” Stefanidis, played by Mary Coustas. The good news is – Effie is alive and kicking, unsullied, inventive and full of vernacular impropriety.
There could be no one better than Meow Meow to capture the history of Her Majesty’s Theatre, and drag it purring right into the present.
Emma Knights’ production is inventive, intelligent, and beautifully presented. The show rises above the conventional with a winning fusion of satire, self-parody and potent performances from a superb ensemble.
In this production, Director Geoff Brittain and his team of excellent actors does The Rep a real service, and gives the theatre-goers of Adelaide a true gift.
No musical discourse on the Australian landscape is complete without its great poet, Peter Sculthorpe, and we heard two of his early, ground-breaking engagements with it
WOMADelaide – the World Music Festival – is back in town again. This is a chance to relax, go back to nature and immerse in the cultures of the world through music, dance and art.
When Miriam Margoyles, doyenne of stage, film and TV told the capacity audience in the Festival Theatre that we were going to be “feasting on sound” she hit the proverbial nail on the head.