Reviews

The opening event of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts is always a grand entrance to the festival itself, and whilst on a smaller scale thanks to Covid restrictions, Macro lived up to expectations with its local, national, and international performers combining acrobatics, dance and incredible confections of music and voice.

Locally written, Spaghetti From Graceland is a coproduction from Harbour and Maverick Theatres, playing at Camelot Arts Centre. The sequel to Confetti From Graceland, which was presented in August last year, it is set in the same room and features the same characters, two years later.

It is twenty years since the familiar events of this couple – except neither Juliet nor Romeo died. Instead, they ran away to Paris, got married, had a daughter, and now… well, now they are having relationship difficulties. And after trying every kind of therapy to salvage the marriage, they are here in the full auditorium, to try a kind of group therapy session, where they share with us their history, as each of them remembers it.

Naomi is a masterclass in acting by Patrick Livesey! By taking us into the lives of eight people associated with his mother up to her death by suicide, Livesey shares her story in the knowledge that understanding her plight may help more people to find a way out of their darkness.