
Menopause may be a troublesome experience, but judging by the cackling coming from the audience of mostly menopausal age women and a few brave males thrown in, its a hoot!


The Oak Tree is not your usual improvisation performance – if you are thinking comedy, think again. The show is about the power of suggestion, loss and grief, it is thought provoking and at times downright confronting.


Was I dreaming? Had I fallen asleep during the 7:30 Report and fleshed it out with Harry Potter and a vaudeville Bugs Bunny episode? No, I was awake, and it was reality I was glad to be in for Pennies from Kevin, a revue running-joke with a thought-provoking punch line.

Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Billy Connolly, Meg Ryan, Dame Edna, and Bing Crosby may be stars on the world stage but one unassuming man upstages them all on Adelaide’s Festival Centre stage – Michael Parkinson.