Reviews

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.

Just when I thought I’d seen every conceivable interpretation of Cats the musical, along comes this sensational new amateur production. This second collaboration between Holiday Actors and the Warrnambool Theatre Company (since the sold-out season of Les Misérables in 2019) proves to be another audience favourite.