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Australia’s catastrophic Black Summer bushfires are the inspiration for a new six-part ABC drama that co-creator Tony Ayres and actor Hunter Page-Lochard say focuses on the stories of heartache and heroism of ordinary people caught up in the disaster.
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InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: voting opens for SA Music Awards ‘people’s choice’ gongs, 2021 OUR MOB art prize winners announced, touring support for Adelaide performing arts projects, a free talk by Aboriginal curator Hannah Presley and more.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | The lessons of a lifetime spent working in arts institutions – from the Adelaide Fringe to Restless Dance Theatre – are helping Windmill Theatre Company associate director Sasha Zahra steer home the remount season of Amphibian this week, amid gut-wrenchingly relevant international tragedy.
An icon of 20th-century contemporary music is the inspiration for this week’s Poet’s Corner contribution from David Atkinson.
Rumpus teams up with independent theatre-makers James Watson and Mary Angley to bring a touch of farce to the serious questions of what and who we believe when art and media become vehicles for propaganda.
Poet and performer Caroline Reid has revived Siarad – an engaging spoken-word performance about memory and mess, moving through and moving on – for a return season at the COMEBACK Festival at Goodwood Theatre & Studios.
Our bookseller dives into John Safran’s eye-opening book about Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, as well as the most-hyped new release of the year – Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You – and two compelling novels from closer to home.
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If there was ever a text to expose the desperation and fear masked by old-school masculinity, Glengarry Glen Ross would be it: four real estate agents sized up against each other in a sales competition that sees the winner take home a Cadillac, the runner-up awarded steak knives, and the others lose their jobs.
Nicolas Cage makes a return to the type of interesting movies he was known for earlier in his career with a beautifully filmed story about a former city chef living in the wilderness whose rustic life is uprooted when his beloved truffle pig is stolen.
Australian Dance Theatre explores the objectification of the human body in this remounted work by Garry Stewart which is exciting, hypnotic and also, at times, uncomfortable to watch.
The 25 Australian contemporary artists selected for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art have been announced, with curator Sebastian Goldspink promising Free/State will be a biennial for the times, ‘reflective of a nation still in the throes of grappling with its past and defining its future’.
From her backyard studio in Bridgewater, Regine Schwarzer is sharing skills that have been cut and polished across 40 years and two hemispheres.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Gravity & Other Myths’ The Pulse finally returns to the Adelaide stage, $25,000 Kennedy Art Prize winner announced, First Nations stories shared in new podcasts, a celebration of comics, and changing chairs at Carclew.
Steeped in a small-town reality with swirling latent violence, this indie gem tells a riveting story about a marriage in trouble which one partner wants to save more than the other.
SPONSORED: When the biggest opportunity of their career came knocking, Sam Gold applied for a Helpmann Academy Creative Investment Fellowship to fund the production of an ambitious collection of works for the 2021 Primavera Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
“The centrepiece of the 2022 Adelaide Festival will be Barrie Kosky’s new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, an opera the celebrated director says is weird and wonderful – part fairytale, part psychological drama and part political satire.
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On the 30th anniversary of her untimely death, the visionary, iconoclastic spirit of much-loved South Australian artist Barbara Hanrahan blazes forth from more than 180 works on paper in this extensive survey exhibition.
Film & TV
Iggy & Ace is a zany new Australian comedy about two gay best friends joined at the hip flask. It also looks at addiction with unflinching honesty.
Festivals
Mark Valenzuela – whose three-part work Once bitten, twice shy featured in the last Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art – has been named as the SALA feature artist for 2022 at the closure of this year’s record-breaking festival.
Remembering via music and voice and poem is at the heart of this week’s Poet’s Corner contributions from Claire Watson
Discussions of class, privilege and origin rarely are light and often are confronting, as seen in Adelaide Repertory Theatre’s production of Good People.
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.
Ahead of a Nexus Arts fundraising gig this weekend, Afghanistan-to-Iran-to-Adelaide multi-disciplinary creative Elyas Alavi explains why everyone – including cultural institutions and governments – should do more to help those in his home country.
