Bakehouse Theatre’s latest production, East of Berlin, is thought provoking, delivers a powerful message and poses some confronting questions. Is it possible to change history through conscious acts of redemption? What measures would you undertake in order to secure a new future? At the outset, we meet Rudi (Adam Carter) carrying an overnight bag and…
Watching retired C.I.A Agent, Frank Moses ‘playing house’ with girlfriend Sarah Ross, is a fantastic way to set the scene for this action-packed comedy, complete with thrill-seeking adventures and a hefty dose of crime thrown in for good measure. There is no shortage of mayhem, chaos and ‘edge of the seat’ moments in this powerhouse…
From the Producers of ‘The Kids are Alright’, ‘What Maisie Knew’ offers a bold, brave and insightful look at life through the eyes of a child. We enter six year old Maisie’s world at the level she encounters it, full of love, complexity and contradiction. Based on the novel by Henry James, Co-Directors Scott McGehee…
In the year of centennial celebrations, Her Majesty’s Theatre was beaming on Saturday night, as Adelaide was given a rare and insightful ‘behind the scenes’ experience with Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Kitty Flanagan (The Project), Professor Roly Sussex (ABC 891) and Host Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, Icehouse) as they explored the world of comedy, In…
True to their values, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra delivered an enriching evening of ‘Vision, Dedication and Inspiration’ at the Adelaide Festival Theatre on Saturday. The audience was treated to a frolicking rendition of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, and transported to another time and place, with all the ambience, animation and anecdote of American Soul. American-born,…
“My dad always told me stories about a hidden world where brave warriors watch over and protect us. If you look closely into nature you will see a hidden struggle going on. Life is constantly up against decay. If you can’t see it, look closer”… “You just can’t stop the rot”. This is where our…
Set in Redfern, NSW in the 1950’s this classic Australian drama, written by Dorothy Hewett, is given new life in Adapt Enterprises’s thought-provoking production of This Old Man Comes Rolling Home. Entering Bakehouse Theatre, the mood is set with commercial footage and the familiar dulcet tones of ‘black and white’ advertisements. The intimate space and…
“Music is sound in melodic or harmonic combination”. Music speaks to our soul, and drives the e-motion that propel us to take action in life. Mr. Holland (Richard Dreyfus) has spent years composing his own piece of work, a passionate reflection of his state of mind when life was full of hope, wonder and magic. In the…
P.S. I Love You was released at the end of 2007. It is a classic ‘relationship’ movie and I love it as much today as I did when I first saw it. It explores the relationships with have with our partner, mother, sister, brother, friends and most importantly, the one we have with ourselves. From…
Oh what a tangled web we weave… Set in a small, industrial town in North London, this finely crafted, gripping movie adopts an interesting and highly effective device of taking the viewer behind the scenes, after the fact. The audience becomes the voyeur, sighting the outcomes of the impulses and reactions of highly charged situations…