Reviews

Storyteller and photographer William Yang is 80 and this presentation (‘show’ seems the wrong word) covers his complex, complicated and marvellously varied life from his childhood in rural Queensland all the way to the present.  He has done many presentations – beginning long ago with ‘slide shows’ in people’s living rooms.  This might be the peak.  His verbal narrative is accompanied by photographs – not quite all his own – that are an essential and inherent part of the telling.  As well, there is Elena Kats-Chernin’

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai woman who, in her own words “rarely stays in her lane”. Rather, as a multi-disciplinary artist, she uses words, music and movement to express her strong feelings about country and mob … and the politics and policies and that force her out of “her lane”.

In Yandha Djanbay she explains those feelings in a performance that is open and challenging but is infused with gentle humour, wry irony and wise commentary.

Whilst in 1960, South Australia’s Chief Secretary slapped a ban on five of Tom Lehrer’s songs, describing them as being ‘in poor taste’, the Fringe crowd for the opening of An Unwasted Evening - The Genius of Tom Lehrer at Jade, sang, clapped, laughed and waved their hands in sheer undisguised enjoyment. My, how the times have changed.

Baby Jane follows the increasingly twisted dynamics between two sisters bound to each other by their involvement in a terrible car accident: Blanche, whom t