Theatre
As audiences sit and wait for the The Story of Chi to begin, ‘Puff, the Magic Dragon’ by Peter, Paul and Mary, plays through the theatre. It is a nostalgic, emotive foreshadowing of what is to come.
Festivals
OzAsia Festival will see artists from 12 countries converge on Adelaide, offering audiences a chance to immerse themselves in all kinds of cultural experiences spanning music, theatre, dance, comedy, conversation and more. InReview has picked five highlights to whet your appetite.
A Taylor Swift drag queen impersonator, a moving portrayal of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, a live Bollywood blockbuster and a Singaporean ‘wedding’ will be among highlights of the 2024 OzAsia Festival program.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Cab Fringe seeks to showcase the diversity of cabaret, arts identities pop up on stobie poles across Adelaide, The Mill presents work-in-progress showings of My Hair is Thinning, Flickerfest returns to the Mercury, get your SALA registrations in, and OzAsia earns national recognition.
In this contemporary dance piece on freedom in the modern age, the performers aren’t the only ones facing the scrutinising glare of the spotlight.
Artist Chris Yee, whose digital animation Perspective Pathways was chosen to illustrate the cover of the 2023 OzAsia Festival program, says he is motivated to tell stories around Australian-Asian identity through his colourful and dynamic creations.
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.
