Arts & Culture
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.
Theatre
State Theatre Company makes a gripping return to the Her Majesty’s stage with a gratifyingly claustrophobic reimagining of Patrick Hamilton’s enduring psychological thriller.
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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.
Concurrently heart-rending and incendiary, Blackrock follows the story of the gang-rape and murder of a 15-year-old-girl on a beach.
