Theatre
In Pride in Prejudice, some of the satire is apt and cutting, some of it falls off the proverbial cliff – such is the death-or-glory of comedy and politics.
Theatre
Famous Last Words makes its first foray into Theatre of the Absurd with this contemporary adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids, a play that cracks open social class with deadly consequences.
In this experimental work, performer Matt Pasquet bends, flips and morphs his body to create a kinetic story within a single square metre of light. ★★★★
Performer Njo Kong Kie honours the haunting poetry of late Chinese worker-poet Xiu Lizhi through a song cycle that causes audiences to question the human costs of modern global capitalism.
Independent emerging theatre-makers are a vital part of South Australia’s arts scene, but with recent venue closures, little infrastructure and limited funding support, most are forced to rely largely on their own passion, commitment and innovation as they defy the odds to continue to produce bold new work.
In an elegantly decorated room at The Jade on Flinders Street, Lauren Edwards steps up to the microphone to share her gripes with the modern world and today’s broken capitalism, and sing a song or two. ★★★ ½
