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The South Australian Living Artists’ Festival (SALA), Opera SA’s Philip Glass Trilogy, a gig by folk-pop outfit Busby Marou, a new series of Shakespeare Sunday Sessions, State Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and Grease is the Word – these are just some of the entertainment options on offer this weekend.
Busby Marou
Following a successful run of summer festival shows, Busby Marou will bring their distinctly Australian style of folk-pop with a touch of country to The Gov on Sunday. Powderfinger guitarist and songwriter Darren Middleton is the main support, with the guitar-slinging banjo-wielding Karl S Williams rounding out the night. More information can be found here.
2014 SALA Festival
The SALA Festival is in full swing, celebrating South Australian visual artists with more than 547 exhibitions and events throughout the city and the regions.
Ray Harris, Deidre But-Husaim, Angela Harris-Faull and Wes Maselli’s exhibition In the Flesh explores the themes of youth, beauty, our ever-transforming appearance and what lies beneath through the mediums of moving image and painting. In the Flesh opens today at the Skybar on the 19th floor of Rowlands Apartments, Adelaide, from 4pm till late.
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In a celebration of her long-term inspiration, the sea, Port Elliot artist Chris De Rosa’s exhibition, The Sea Inside, is an installation of print works and moving image informed by marine flora. It runs at Art Pod until September 11.
Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh as part of Adelaide City Council’s 2014 Emerging Curator Program, Eight showcases a collection of eight South Australian artists – Alexander Carletti, Angelica Harris-Faull, Hayley Jessup, Christian Lock, Monika Morgenstern, Derek Sargent, Paul Sloan and Raymond Zada – who explore the themes of identity, imagination and the intangible through printmaking, painting, photography, moving image and sculpture. Eight is being shown at the Adelaide Town Hall until September 11.
Meaghan Coles’ Spontaneity, oil and spray enamel on canvas, part of the SALA Out of the Studio exhibition at Carclew.
Out of the Studio is a collection of 32 works by 2014 Carclew artist studio residents Lilly Buttrose, Meaghan Coles and Jordan Gower, curated by emerging curators Caitlin Eyre and Craig Robert Middleton. This is a unique opportunity to meet young and early-career visual artists, explore their creative spaces and learn about the creative process.
SALA continues until August 24. Download the full program here.
Shakespeare Sunday Sessions – The Winter’s Tale
SA actor Holly Myers has brought together some of Adelaide’s finest (mostly female) talent to explore some of Shakespeare’s greatest roles. The series starts with the magical romance of The Winter’s Tale at 2pm on Sunday in Bill’s Bar at the Goodwood Institute, where the audience can expect some gender bending and an interval performance by Betty’s Urban Myth Ukulele Band featuring Miss Clementine. Suggested door donation is $5, with proceeds gifted to the family of friend and colleague the late Pete Michell. More information can be found here.
Reassessment – A Double Bill
In Too Far Again, Not Far Enough and Agile, the two parts of Reassessment, choreographer Daniel Jaber explores gender and sexuality through the marriage of movement, sound, video and text. Jaber’s work is confrontational yet poignant, executed with a poetic ferocity reminiscent of Lloyd Newson’s DV8, says InDaily’s reviewer. Reassessment – A Double Bill is showing at the Space Theatre until August 9.
The Philip Glass Trilogy
Timothy Sexton, State Opera CEO and conductor of The Philip Glass Trilogy, has pulled off an incredible coup in assembling the talent required to stage this series of outstanding modern operas – Akhnaten, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha – exploring the inextricable links between science, religion and politics. Philip Glass’s music is meditative, contemplative and full of beauty and power, and the State Opera has presented an opportunity to experience all three operas within a week in three cycles running until August 23. Read InDaily’s reviews of Aknaten here and Einstein on the Beach here.
Nature by Jane Sheldon and Nicole Panizza
Soprano Jane Sheldon and pianist Nicole Panizza will launch their debut album Nature with a concert presented by the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at Adelaide’s Elder Hall tomorrow night. Both members of the duo live abroad and work extensively in Europe, but the album features music by Aaron Copland, Nigel Butterley, Ross Edwards and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. More information can be found here.
Grease is the Word
Starring Rob Mills as Danny and Gretel Scarlett as Sandy alongside John Paul Young, Todd McKenney, Val Lehman and Bert Newton, Grease has proved itself to be every bit the high-energy, smash hit musical of the original film version. The Adelaide season runs until August 31 and includes the unforgettable songs You’re The One That I Want, Grease Is The Word, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Sandy, Greased Lightnin’ and many more. Read InDaily’s review here.
The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk
This touching coming-of-age tale about friendship, betrayal and overcoming adversity is a funny and potent exploration of the stakes of friendship and the turmoil of the schoolyard. Suitable for ages nine and over, the one-man show features Adelaide actor Renato Musolino (The Kreutzer Sonata and The Seagull). Presented by Windmill Theatre, Barking Gecko Theatre Company and Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk will be shown at Tandanya Theatre from August 8 to 9.
Francis Roy Thompson at Carrick Hill
Francis Roy Thompson’s Boats (possibly White Boats).
An exhibition of 40 works by Francis Roy Thompson (1896-1966) entitled Francis Roy Thompson: Painter of Grace & Rebellion opens at Carrick Hill, Springfield, today and will be on show until October 26. “Francis Roy Thompson was one of Adelaide’s most colourful, unconventional and dynamic modernist artists,” says Carrick Hill director Richard Heathcote.
Waterhouse Prize
Climate change, natural wonders, genetic links between animals and humans, and species loss are among the themes boldly explored by outstanding finalists in the South Australian Museum’s 2014 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. See the exquisite works produced for this prestigious international art prize from all over the world until November 9. More information can be found here.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s witty and much-loved comedy of love, manners and mistaken identity, The Importance of Being Earnest, brings the antics of bachelors Jack and Algernon in stifling Victorian England to the Dunstan Playhouse. Running until August 16, it sees theatre legend Nancye Hayes return to the State Theatre Company to play the formidable and acidic Lady Bracknell, joined by the hilarious Nathan O’Keefe as Algernon, a young aristocrat with a sharp wit.
Secret Bridesmaids’ Business
Meg Bacon is getting married in the morning to the man of her dreams, but a terrible secret threatens to ruin the wedding. A dilemma ensues as the night progresses and the champagne bottles pile up – would you tell the bride? Blackwood Players’ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business will be showing tonight until August 23 at the Blackwood Memorial Hall. More information can be found here.
OzAsia at the Samstag Museum of Art
The Samstag Museum is presenting two new exhibitions – Mooi Indie – Beautiful Indies, Indonesian Art Now and In-Habit: Project Another Country – as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2014 OzAsia Festival. Mooi Indie celebrates the culturally aware and socially engaged art that is the product of an energetic art scene that thrives in Indonesia, featuring works from established and emerging artists that address themes such as human rights, the environment, gender, identity and culture, across all genres. In-Habit: Project Another Country is a contemporary art project by Filipino-born, Brisbane-based artists, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan which addresses themes of journey and diaspora; settlement and resettlement; home and land; plight and displacement. The exhibitions run until October 3. More information can be found here.
On screen
See InDaily’s reviews of the latest films screening in Adelaide:
Aussie Rules the World
Lucy
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie
Hercules
Sex Tape
Reaching for the Moon
Charlie’s Country
Venus in Fur
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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