This was no show just to entertain, as indeed it did, but to teach too and the young audience was ready and willing to learn.
Adelaide Reviews
It is rare to see a 100% standing ovation at the end of a show and then to see the whole audience swaying and singing to a song and dance like “Let’s Do The Time Warp Again”. But that’s The Rocky Horror Show for you.
Theatre is often the art of telling an old tale in a new way and sometimes we think we know all the story has to tell us until someone like author Peter Rothstein puts it differently.
Decadent, wild, fast, packed, noisy, colourful, clever, atmospheric, unusual, ribald, unexpected and enormous fun are just a few of the applicable adjectives for Club Swizzle.
We were taken on a global journey starting with a Hebrew song well sung by Naomi and to such varied cultures as those from Guinea, Spain, America and West Africa.
How do you pronounce Vale? To rhyme with whale or to rhyme with Calais? It is the former, although argument rages about how it should be pronounced when it means goodbye.
It was a joyful, demanding, emotionally churning play that doesn’t go away at its end but leaves so much to think about afterwards.
The Adelaide Repertory Theatre can be relied on at all times and when it promises “an evening of high drama and musical interludes” it means high jinks are on the way - and so it proved to be.