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What’s on in Adelaide

Mar 21, 2014, updated Oct 22, 2015
Bobby Keys (third from right) and The Suffering Bastards are playing at The Gov.

Bobby Keys (third from right) and The Suffering Bastards are playing at The Gov.

Get ready to do the Time Warp again – The Rocky Horror Show has hit town, along with Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys and a show paying tribute to Swedish pop stars Abba.

Bobby Keys

While The Rolling Stones have postponed their Australian shows after the death of Mick Jagger’s partner L’Wren Scott, the band’s long-time saxophonist Bobby Keys is continuing his own tour, which pulls into The Gov tonight (March 21). Keys, who played on every Rolling Stones record from 1969-1974 and from 1980 onwards, is playing with his band The Suffering Bastards, featuring Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites), Chark Kinsolving (Spoonful), Michael Webb (John Fogerty), Robert Kearns (Lynard Skynyrd) and Brad Pemberton (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals).

Government House Open Day

The lawns of historic Government House (corner North Terrace and King William Road) will be transformed into a showground this Sunday, with wood-chopping demonstrations, dog trials, a carousel, V8 car displays, animals, and scones by the CWA. The free open day from 10am to 4pm is celebrate the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia’s 175th  anniversary. Visitors can see the ballroom, tour the gardens, find out what happens behind the scenes, and check out historical displays and memorabilia. You can even learn about the house’s “resident ghost” …

Leigh Street wine showcase

Adelaide Hills winemakers will be sharing some of their top drops at a public wine showcase in Leigh Street between 4.30pm and 7pm today (March 21). The 18+ event includes a “My Palate Rules” competition, where wine lovers can test their ability to recognise the variety, vintage and producer of different wines. Wines will be for sale by the glass, with takeaway bottle sales also available.

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

The ever-popular Rocky Horror Show is back in town as part of a 40th anniversary Australian tour, with creator Richard O’Brien playing the narrator for the Adelaide season, Craig McLachlan as Frank N Furter, and the promise of fun, frolics and frivolity galore. It’s playing at the Festival Theatre until April 13 and is recommended for ages 15+ – as the warning says, “there are rude bits”.

Gold: The Ultimate Abba Show

Speaking of time warps, this two-hour show tonight (March 21) at the Dunstan Playhouse will take its audience back to the ’70s with a catalogue of hits from Swedish superstars Abba. It’s presented by Happy Days Records, and you can expect to hear favourites such as “Mamma Mia”, “Fernando”, “Dancing Queen” and many more.

Four Rooms – Tandanya

A number of leading Aboriginal artists have created new “multi-sensory installations” in four separate rooms for this exhibition at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute.  “Each ‘room environment’ draws on a range of media such as video, objects, sound and lighting, challenging audiences to look at Aboriginality and the practices of Aboriginal people as ever-changing, experimental and highly contemporary,” say the exhibition notes. Four Rooms opened during the Adelaide Festival and runs until April 6.

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

With the theme Dark Heart, the Art Gallery of SA’s 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art offers the chance to see cutting-edge works by 28 contemporary Australian artists and collectives. The exhibition (running until May 11) includes photography, painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image, exploring issues ranging from intercultural relationships and the environment, to gender and political power. You can get a taste of what’s in store here.

Isabelle Huppert in Folies Bergère

Isabelle Huppert in Folies Bergère

French Film Festival

The Alliance Française French Film Festival is celebrating its 25th year in Australia with a line-up of contemporary films spanning the gamut of genres, from documentary to comedy and drama. It opened at Adelaide’s Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas this week and continues until April 8, with weekend screenings including the romantic dramedy Bright Days Ahead (read InDaily review here), French-Moroccan comedy-drama Homeland (produced by the directors of The Intouchables), Tour de France comedy Tour De Force, fashion documentary Mademoiselle C (about former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld) and Isabelle Huppert film Folies Bergère.

Harmony Day

The Migration Museum (82 Kintore Avenue) will celebrate Harmony Day from 2pm until 4pm this Sunday with activities including a live performance from an African gospel choir, food from a range of cultures, and kids’ games from around the world. Two Australian Refugee Association youth ambassadors will speak about their experiences as refugees, and there will be free tours of the museum exhibition Refugees and Australia: 1972-2012.

Seraphim Trio

This classical music trio – Anna Goldsworthy (piano), Helen Ayres (violin) and Timothy Nankervis (cello) – will be performing a concert at Elder Hall on Saturday afternoon with guest soprano Jane Sheldon. The program includes Andrew Ford’s new song cycle Last Words, which includes text based on the final words or poems of people such as Goethe, Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Porter. Starting at 2.30pm, the concert will also feature Beethoven’s Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 no. 2 and Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major Op. 8 No 1.

Worlds in Collision – Samstag

Art lovers have just one more week to view Worlds in Collision: Adelaide International 2014, an exhibition at the Samstag Museum of Art featuring the work of nine international artists looking at “technological, political, psychological and psychedelic exploration”. Developed by UK-based curator, Richard Grayson, it finishes on March 28.

On screen

See InDaily’s reviews of the latest films screening in Adelaide:

Cuban Fury
Bright Days Ahead (French Film Festival)
Need for Speed
Non-Stop
Nebraska
Gloria
All is Lost
Endless Love
Dallas Buyers Club
Winter’s Tale
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Last Vegas
Grudge Match
12 Years a Slave

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