Reviews

Not your usual Festival venue - a cherished community hall on the southern fringe of the city.  Nor is this the customary measured stroll into a performance where you are ushered to a numbered seat in a softly illuminated auditorium.  The audience arrives as the cast wanders about, warms up or says hi.  We interact with various performers, take a sticky label to write the name of our favourite theatre work thereon and affix it to our chest, somewhat gingerly wondering if one might be called upon to participate in some way.  Next, the chaos of finding a seat in the random

The husky vocals of Jamie Alexandra wisp around the double bass player standing in the centre of the room, and this qualified sexologist promises to ignite conversations and cultivate a safe space for positive sexuality. We’re told this will be the education we should have already had.

Following sold out seasons walking the streets of Kensington, Bowden, and Parkside, this year’s street theatre from Oily Rag Theatre is in the lush suburb of St. Peters. Its wide streets and big houses give some clue to their age from the early developments of the Adelaide eastern suburbs, but it is through the stories from Milly and Tilly that we get a richer knowledge of the history of the area’s buildings and their inhabitants.

The Brooklyn Rider string quartet was set to perform in Australia a few years ago, but travel restrictions meant their first Australian performance of their collection called The 4 Elements had to wait until this year.

This week, modern classical music fans must have felt they were in New York (where the quartet formed nearly 20 years ago), Berlin, Paris, or London, being able to see curated musical pieces evoking Air, Water, Fire and Earth, performed live on stage.