Reviews

Jennifer Willison finds all the fun as well as the ‘bite’ in her production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s satire on “celebrity feminists”. She keeps the pace fast – from the opening monologue it’s clear Willison is going to make the audience sit up and be entertained.

Catherine Potter delivers that monologue succinctly, introducing Margot Mason as strong, in command, but suffering writer’s block as she attempts to begin yet another dissertation on breaking the ‘feminine mystique’.

With a career spanning five decades, a back catalogue of 22 albums selling 2.6 million copies, and garnering countless chart-topping singles and multi-platinum records globally, Ms Marcia Hines is a shining beacon of experience, sass and talent and a welcome addition to the line-up for this Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Written by one of Britain’s best known and revered playwrights, The Madness of George III tells the story of the King’s declining relationship with his eldest son, the foppish Prince of Wales (later George IV), particularly focusing on the period around the government’s Regency Crisis of 1788–89. It is a complex and challenging play that, at its best, embraces the style and language of the Regency era where extravagance in most matters, was the norm for what was then, arguably the world’s most powerful king.

WAAPA’s annual “big” musical, staged at His Majesty’s Theatre, is the biggest event of the WAAPA performance calendar. Much anticipated, this production, performed by WAAPA Music Theatre and Music Students and designed built and crewed by WAAPA Production and Design Students, does not disappoint, with Mack and Mabel a slick, polished, and well performed production that rivals the production values of a national tour.