Theatre
Rita Papillo and Tracy Crisp both confront the challenges of middle-age in a fast-paced world in two brilliantly sharp-witted pieces at Holden Street Theatres.
Adelaide Fringe
Lobethal, Encounter Bay, the Burnside Village Shopping Centre – no stone goes unturned as Peter Goers takes to the stage with an ode to South Australia. ★★★ ½
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After infant Tom pushed a little girl because he didn’t want to be hugged, “he became That Boy”, his mother recalls, “and I became That Mother.” Martha Lott powerfully describes the lonely challenges of parenting a turbulent child when everyone else has given up. ★★★★
Two friends are cast in a school production of The Comedy of Errors. One is Greg Fleet, the other Ian Darling. One took the high road, the other the low. Forty years later they ponder where life has taken them – and which road was which. ★★★★
Set against the horrors of the anti-gay purges in Chechnya, Patrick Livesey’s Adelaide Fringe show asks difficult questions about the responsibilities we feel for people we’ve never met.
Adelaide’s Holden Street Theatres is expanding its site and increasing its arts offering with the launch of a new venture: The Holden Street Theatres’ Arts Park.
