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Theatre
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.
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The devastatingly seminal events of 9/11 remain in reflection 20 years on. Theatre Republic’s production of Emily Steel’s new play How Not to Make it in America adds a fresh, striking and painfully human layer to this reflection.
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.
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.
The ancient Javanese art of shadow-play meets the modern world head on in Perahu-Perahu, a captivating exploration of humanity’s relationship with the ocean and the rich seafaring history linking Indonesia and Australia.
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.
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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.
Indigenous director Margaret Harvey has used colour-conscious casting to give a 21st-century Australian context to playwright Edward Albee’s 60-year-old American play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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.
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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.
Theatre
Discussions of class, privilege and origin rarely are light and often are confronting, as seen in Adelaide Repertory Theatre’s production of Good People.
A viral news story about a lost tourist in Iceland handed Mount Gambier-based actor Sarah Brokensha the perfect framing for a story much closer to home. The resulting show, The World Is Looking For You, is a little bit lost, and a little bit found.
A diverse collection of South Australians will take to the stage to answer the question “Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?” when the unique theatrical show Truth to Power Café comes to Adelaide.
Hibernation, State Theatre’s engaging and theatrically inventive new play, is not only a wake-up call about the climate crisis, it reminds us that to fix the planet we really have to fix ourselves.
THE BUSINESS OF ART | Adelaide artist Gill Hicks’ live show Still Alive (and Kicking) will this month be streamed for audiences on the other side of the globe, but her journey to the stage has been long and winding. From a creative childhood, via the trauma of the London bombings, Hicks is reconciling her activist and artistic drives with help from a debut Adelaide Fringe season.
