Reviews

I had mixed feelings about this show.

This year's Adelaide Festival of Arts has thus far been commendably adventurous, unafraid to take an audience out of its comfort zone, willing to stretch the parameters of theatre beyond what feels familiar. Deluge is an experiment that should prove interesting and rewarding for all those willing and eager to be taken somewhere new and different; the unique concept behind this venture makes for an intriguing, excitingly unpredictable experience.

Haunted by a depressing cancer diagnosis, Sue Smith draws in this new play on own journey back to living in the moment and smelling the roses.

Paul is an idealistic, self-doubting engineer whose esteem is further challenged when he’s paralysed in a car accident.  From his hospital bed, with his academic wife Gabby, he daydreams back to moments in their relationship which they always wanted to remember as bliss - their engagement, the birth of their daughter Lucy. 

Girl-power musicals weren’t born with Legally Blonde but the show has done more than its fair share to keep the franchise going. An average success on Broadway, and a monster hit in London, the musical has been embraced by community theatre companies around the country and it’s now Savoyards’ turn, in a first-class production by director Johanna Toia.