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Theatre
Forget the ill-founded arts snobbery – there’s a thin line between professional and ‘amateur’ theatre. The links between the two run deep in South Australia, where the non-pro scene continues to thrive and serve up all manner of stage spectacles.
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InReview
Julian Hobba and Nick Hays both moved to South Australia this year to take up high-level roles in the performing arts sector – at the same time the pandemic forced their companies off-stage.
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An Adelaide playwright says her new public theatre show, to be performed in a city shopfront window, was inspired by photos taken of the Duchess of Cambridge after she gave birth to her third child.
After spending countless hours trawling through an online Stolen Generation database, performer and Noongar man Ian Michael felt compelled to voice the harrowing accounts of trauma, separation and lost culture on stage.
Adelaide Rep’s artistes articulate anachronistic absurdities as they portray pitiful paupers and pitiless and pedicular vile villains in a magnificent, melodic and melodramatic music hall.
The experiences of gay, lesbian and transgender teachers – many of whom report being “hyper-visible” yet unseen – are shared in a theatre work which will have its premiere during Adelaide’s Feast Festival.
