Reviews

You think that you are going to see a play at the rear of a rather noisy pub, but you discover that it is 1956 and you are attending the annual quiche breakfast of the Susan B Anthony Society for the Sisterhood of Gertrude Stein. You are greeted warmly, given an appropriate 1950s name tag and take your seat with other “widows” to wait for the meeting.

Cold War fever is at its peak, and when there is a huge explosion, we find that there is more going on than first appears.

In the Western Suburbs in Adelaide there is an absolute gem of a show – John Bucchino’s American musical revue It’s Only Life. This has been produced and directed by David Gauci, founder of Davine Interventionz Productions.

Mr Gauci has taken a huge risk, artistically and financially in producing this work, which includes bringing out John Bucchino to perform in his own work with some of Adelaide’s best Musical Theatre people.

Ophelia - a muse for the ages!

And so it goes with Enter Ophelia, an exciting new production that unites Essential Theatre’s Shakespearean expertise and Three Birds Theatre’s propulsion to reinvent female characters into powerful self-driven figures.

One more cup of coffee and then we’ll save the world is a show that is evocative of the 1960’s smokey coffee houses in Australia, where protest and love were the key themes.

The show opens gently with a man, his hat, his acoustic guitar and a single microphone. The venue is intimate, seating about two dozen people. Do not dress warmly as the Basem3nt is a warm space.