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Hartstone-Kitney Productions has drawn thousands of people to its pop-up Fringe venues in the Adelaide Botanic Garden in recent years, but it won’t be returning there next month after deciding to present a season of exclusively digital shows.
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THE BUSINESS OF ART | After a year of frustrated touring plans, Erin Fowler is relieved to be bringing solo work EGG back to Adelaide Fringe – the platform where it first drew the attention of local audiences and programmers around the world.
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SA arts and culture news in brief: Small SA theatre company scores a big win at national awards, artist seeks messages in a bottle for Biennial installation, Critics Circle winners revealed, City of Adelaide announces 2022 cultural partnerships, and entries open for $12,000 art prize.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | Forced by the pandemic to pause its normally exhaustive international touring schedule, circus company Gravity & Other Myths has been crossing creative borders instead – expanding into new mediums during a period of fertile lateral growth.
Acting and the armed forces may seem worlds apart but, on a Monday night in Adelaide, the two converge in a meaningful way.
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.
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.
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.
Jonathan Spector’s prescient portrait of a school council debate over mandatory vaccination masters the delicate balance between pathos and razor-sharp snark.
ActNow Theatre has seen many changes over the past year – including a raft of fresh faces and new projects – but its focus on social justice remains razor-sharp.
Frivolity seems so out of place in these COVID times, but a dose of light-hearted merriment from Rossini is actually the perfect antidote. The 18th-century’s operatic funster, he has a way of surrendering to pure fun that can still work a treat today.
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In Theatre Republic’s ‘How Not to Make it in America’, playwright Emily Steel revisits the “heartbreaking but a little bit beautiful” naivety of her youth, attempting to make it in New York at the turn of the century.
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Six the Musical – the hit show that sees Henry VIII’s six wives transformed from Tudor queens into pop princesses – is coming to Her Majesty’s Theatre in May 2022.
Shakespeare South Australia – a new local outdoor theatre company with an environmental ethos at its core – debuts this week with a production of Twelfth Night in the picturesque setting of the Palm House lawns at the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
OzAsia 2021 has opened with its first highlight: a play that not only takes a sharp and funny swipe at the Asian cosmetics industry, it reminds us that racism comes in a disturbing variety of forms – and social media often doesn’t help.
A court-side tribute to Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a Dylan-inspired jukebox musical, and a new production of Michelle Law’s Single Asian Female are among highlights of State Theatre Company SA’s newly-unveiled 2022 program.
Grounded in her own experience, Michèle Saint-Yves’ Clock for No Time is a play about disability, the father-daughter relationship and living in a world where it often feels like time is running out – and the writer-director is determined to ensure as many people as possible can see it.
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Controversial Australian play Kill Climate Deniers will be brought back to the stage in an immersive production by Kinetik Collective – and the new Adelaide theatre group’s co-founders believe it is more poignant now than ever.
Music
A good piece of theatre can stop the clock, suspending its audience in an otherworld where they want to stay. The G&S’s production of Evita does just that.
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.
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.
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.
