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SA arts and culture news in brief: An East End institution set to shut up shop, tributes flow for one of Adelaide theatre’s ‘most colourful and prolific’ characters, Critics Circle announces 2021 awards shortlist, Guildhouse expands its entrepreneurial push, and more.
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Acting and the armed forces may seem worlds apart but, on a Monday night in Adelaide, the two converge in a meaningful way.
Design
The climate crisis is now integral to any dialogue around architecture and design as the profession acknowledges its significant ongoing relationship with the natural world. This month we look at how local architectural practices are shifting the conversation around sustainability.
From his first film roles in the 1970s through to recent times, David Dalaithngu’s impact as both an actor and leader was far-reaching, writes Professor of Indigenous Studies Bronwyn Carlson: ‘He was an actor who could not be constrained.’
Director Denis Villeneuve’s breathtaking adaptation of Dune shows that Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science-fiction novel was not ‘unfilmable’ after all.
Get Back, film director Peter Jackson’s three-part reboot of the 1969 Beatles film Let it Be, is an epic success. It’s like Big Brother with a cast of geniuses.
Reflections on nature, the ever-changing seasons, and life without loved ones in a lockdown year are the thoughts behind this week’s Poet’s Corner contribution from Valerie Derry.
The exhilarating power and emotional impact of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was fully harnessed by 270 musicians and 183 choristers in this epic outdoor concert.
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True Ability Theatre co-creative director Kelly Vincent says the company’s latest theatrical production, UnSeen – a montage of monologues presented by a ‘100 per cent disabled cast’ – puts marginalised stories centre-stage.
Garry Stewart marks his departure as artistic director of ADT in a restaging of his bold and iconoclastic G: 60 minutes of raw, frenetic energy in a deconstruction that obliterates every trace of sentimentality from the romantic narratives of the classic 19th century ballet, Giselle.
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s new festival opened last night at the Showground, with a program that included a raft of classical favourites. Our reviewer assesses the outdoor set-up and the ASO’s performance.
The digital exhibition celebrating 40 years of the History Trust of South Australia continues today with a look at explorers and settlers.
Adelaide Festival has unveiled a 2022 program featuring Australian and international artists in more than 70 events, including a free opening night acrobatics and music ‘extravaganza’ at the Oval, Patricia Piccinini’s soaring Skywhales, a major dance work performed by 38 dancers from 14 African nations, and an oratorio about the 1972 murder of law lecturer George Duncan.
Where does a regional imprint on a wine come from? In the Eden Valley, its Riesling reveals most of the secrets. The rest is simply magic.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Australian Dance Theatre’s latest show marks the end of an era, Light’s founders recognised with national philanthropy award, Patch Theatre to hit the road again in 2022, and Illuminate Adelaide announces the recipients of its graduate pathway program.
New collective Good Company Theatre will take a radically different approach to Shakespeare with its debut production Hamlet in the Other Room – a play that will be performed by an all-female cast in the dressing room, corridors and performance space of Rumpus.
For today’s Poet’s Corner contribution, Sharon Foulkes finds inspiration in the visitors who flock to feed on beauty, en plein air.
“This new Danish film featuring Another Round star Mads Mikkelsen is not quite the predictable revenge thriller it first seems.
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Theatre
In Catherine Fitzgerald’s grim comedy of climate crisis, two sisters cling desperately to the remnants of their unsustainable rural heritage on a South Australian property.
Film & TV
Music is once again the key in Baby Driver director Edgar Wright’s latest film – a neon thriller where haunted imaginings and reality collide.
Tarnanthi Festival celebrates the depth and breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art across Australia – and from psychedelic paintings to mesmerising moving image works, there is plenty to see in this year’s more that 60 exhibitions and events.
The horror stories in this new Australian YA collection range from ‘straight-up terrifying rollercoaster rides’ to those rooted in society’s deepest fears. The story extracted here takes readers on a mercy-dash road trip that goes chillingly awry.
SPONSORED: The next generation of creative entrepreneurs is being placed front and centre through the Helpmann Academy Creative Innovator Program, with a film production start-up and a music sample-pack business among those recently given a seed-funding boost.
Our digital exhibition for the 40th anniversary of the History Trust of South Australia continues with a look at the role animals have played in the history of SA.
One icon is seen against the setting of another in this week’s Poet’s Corner contribution from Paul Turley.
