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Tuesday, August 20

A sensory experience to make the tastebuds sing

What is the sound of sweet – or salt? What music might enhance the enjoyment of a decadent creamy cheese or a ripe Roquefort? These kinds of questions have driven Valerie Henbest to devise a series of sensory events debuting at the Adelaide French Festival.

Zephyr Quartet's Between Light

Between Light – performed by the superb Zephyr Quartet and lit by the brilliant Geoff Cobham in Port Adelaide’s spacious Waterside Workers’ Hall – is aptly described as a “conversation between light, sound and space”.

The Zephyr Quartet.

The Juliet Letters

The original Rolling Stone review of Elvis Costello’s unusual album, The Juliet Letters, compared the “sardonic humour” and “bleak beauty” of the songs to Brecht and Weill.

Cabaret reflects on the dying art of letter writing

Thrilling, daunting, exciting and revelatory is how Adelaide theatre director and producer David Mealor describes the letters at the heart of acclaimed song cycle ‘The Juliet Letters’.

Review: Exquisite Corpse

It’s a rare privilege to share in the world premiere of an exciting and innovative new work. Even more so when it is devised, produced and performed by an Adelaide company.