
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.

A couple of years on, the story is still timely, and this encore production cements The Bleeding Tree as a bonafide classic.

Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word for 'life in chaos, life needing to change, crazy life', a perfect description of the current state of affairs when it comes to climate change, environmental degradation and the cancer that is neo-liberal capitalism.

Embedded within the Adelaide Festival this year is a series of chamber music concerts called Chamber Landscapes, held in the Ukaria Cultural Centre in the Adelaide Hills.

I loved everything about Faith Healer, a play as modest, inventive and intriguing as its author appears to have been.

It’s hard to imagine leaving a theatre show about a boy whose mum is suicidal with cheeks sore from smiling, but the after-effects of seeing Every Brilliant Thing are anything but expected.

Billed as “the superhero origin story of Shakespeare’s Henry V”, this is a production filled with confident zeal but sadly doomed to fail as spectacularly as the French defeat at Agincourt.