Reviews

International Women’s Day was the auspicious date that Fringe headliner Prinnie Stevens opened her one woman show: Lady Sings The Blues. She is quoted as saying, ‘When I perform…I represent all that I love and all who have gone before me’, and this show eloquently and passionately embraces the journeys of beloved female blues, pop and soul singers, from Billie (Holiday) to Beyonce.

The opening event of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts is always a grand entrance to the festival itself, and whilst on a smaller scale thanks to Covid restrictions, Macro lived up to expectations with its local, national, and international performers combining acrobatics, dance and incredible confections of music and voice.

Locally written, Spaghetti From Graceland is a coproduction from Harbour and Maverick Theatres, playing at Camelot Arts Centre. The sequel to Confetti From Graceland, which was presented in August last year, it is set in the same room and features the same characters, two years later.

It is twenty years since the familiar events of this couple – except neither Juliet nor Romeo died. Instead, they ran away to Paris, got married, had a daughter, and now… well, now they are having relationship difficulties. And after trying every kind of therapy to salvage the marriage, they are here in the full auditorium, to try a kind of group therapy session, where they share with us their history, as each of them remembers it.