InReview
Applications are open for the 2024 Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship, which seeks to develop the next generation of arts writers and reviewers in South Australia.
Theatre
Wicked Good Productions’ Dead Man’s Cell Phone is an imaginative and wickedly entertaining exploration of modern human connections.
Brendan Goh is an insightful and witty emerging comedian who amplifies the voices of queer Asian communities.
The 2023 Flinders Drama Centre graduate showcase introduces exciting emerging creatives who are expected to soon become familiar faces in the Adelaide theatre scene.
Thought-provoking and emotionally charged, ‘night, Mother explores the complexity of a mother/daughter relationship and the emotional ravages of suppressing family truth.
Brendan Goh’s first attempt at stand-up left him despairing that he wasn’t ‘Kathy Griffin funny’, but after finding the courage to try again and tell his own story, the Malaysian-born gay comedian has found his groove.
Theatre
The irreplaceable beauty of live theatre is highlighted in this refreshing new take on British playwright Sarah Kane’s heart-wrenching exploration of mental illness and the yearning for human connection.
InReview
Nicky Tsz Tung Li – a multidisciplinary, queer Hong Kong artist with a passion for music theatre and experimental arts – is the round-two recipient of the Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship for 2023.
Alex Frayne and Paul Grabowsky present an innovative approach to art exhibition through the meeting of improvisational music and visual art.
Two South Australian acts, Alexander Flood and Sons Of Zöku, stood right alongside the top international artists at this year’s WOMADelaide with their own unique and genre-challenging fusion of ethnic influences.
Peter Goers takes a trip through Adelaide’s nostalgic past with jokes, friendly faces, and a surprise appearance. ★★★★
Guy Noble and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra held the audience spellbound with a night of magical music including The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and excerpts from The Nutcracker and Harry Potter.
InReview
Helpmann Academy and InReview are thrilled to introduce Shannon Pearce as the next recipient of the Helpmann Academy InReview Mentorship.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Applications open for 2023 Helpmann Academy / InReview mentorship, new grants offered for regional artists, State Opera’s ‘honeymoon killers’ opera to go on tour, workshops for writers and readers, and a pair of cinematic avian-inspired concerts at Elder Hall.
One of Adelaide’s veteran companies ambitiously tackles Anton Chekhov’s Seagull, a play that revolutionised theatre.
Visual artists grapple with the emerging realities of pervasive internet algorithms, surveillance capitalism and 3D virtual spaces in an exploration of our increasingly inescapable relationship to technology.
In an intimate presentation at the Hugo Michell Gallery, digital and multimodal artist Jess Taylor’s first commercial exhibition expresses a reaching for universal experience through representation of her inner personal fears and obsessions.
While playing Trivial Pursuit, a solitary clown leads us through a tumultuous personal story, from attending Clown Farm in Canada to living with a First Nations shaman in California. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
In Their Footsteps is a vivid tribute to the unsung female heroes of the Vietnam War, interweaving recollections from five actual participants. ★★★★
Adelaide Fringe
This new local work is a touching and challenging exploration of life in aged care, and of the experience of living with dementia. ★★★★
An energetic cast and a ham-fisted translation algorithm make for a celebration of nostalgia for some of our favourite films. ★★★½
In Nella, writer and performer Julia Mayer weaves a vivid and heartfelt tribute to her nonna, retracing her steps from a young woman leaving Italy, to growing old in Adelaide. ★★★★
The second Helpmann Academy InReview mentorship has been awarded to a South Australian graduate, who will be mentored in the craft of arts reviewing by two of the state’s most experienced critics.
If you want to develop your skills as an arts reviewer – and be paid for it – then don’t miss out on applying for the next Helpmann Academy/InReview mentorship.
Theatre
Discussions of class, privilege and origin rarely are light and often are confronting, as seen in Adelaide Repertory Theatre’s production of Good People.
Theatre
Layers of stories, characters and blankets combine to form a profound and tender production about brokenness, loss and the eternal, hopeless human desire for a singular, true identity.
Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit is still charming audiences 80 years on from its first production in this new incarnation by the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild.
Two of South Australia’s celebrated performing arts companies have joined forces in an enchanting acrobatic adventure that exhibits the infinite possibilities of human identity and imagination.
Independent Theatre’s traditionalist approach in its new production of Macbeth highlights the timeless themes of ambition, guilt and fate that make this play a beloved Shakespearean tragedy.
Alex Martinis Roe presents a multi-media installation of films and artefacts at Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art in a powerful exploration of relationships, communities and feminist politics.
