Reviews

Even 19 years after her death, Dusty Springfield remains popular.

The hour-long Son of a Preacher Man - The Dusty Springfield Story includes many of Springfield’s most popular classics: ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?’, ‘You’re Just Too Good to be True’, and the titular ‘Son of a Preacher Man’.

Alongside the classics are one or two surprises.

Apart from the performance, it’s the factoids that Djuric shares with the audience that helps you learn about Springfield.

Adelaide’s Festival Centre has seen the world’s brightest and most glorious stars showcase their work on its various stages since the Centre’s opening in 1973. Names such as Robert Helpmann, Tim Minchin, James Morrison, Rudolph Nureyev and Nancye Hayes are just some of these artists.

With the Fringe World Festival just around the corner, a small group of people were given the opportunity to ‘get their fringe on’ early, with a media only preview of 4x4x4 at the Actors Hub.

4x4x4 is a fascinating concept. Almost Repertory Theatre, four actors appear in four different productions over four nights, over four weeks. Patrons can see the four shows over four consecutive nights, or they can show up on each Thursday, for example, over the four weeks of Fringe World, and see four different shows.

Queensland Theatre and the Dead Puppet Society have created a luminous boys’ own adventure about the voyage of young Charles Darwin on the Beagle.

Charles is running from a future in the Church but, ironically, the Beagle is really off to covert heathens in Tierra del Fuego, and use Charles to prove a then popular geological theory which would underline God’s purpose.