Julie Robins
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Mar 09
RIO 40 : Fringe 2023 : 4K
An Aussie tourist, wide-eyed and somewhat gormless, arrives in Rio ready for adventure. Rio-born internationally renowned choreographer Talita Fontainha enthusiastically introduced her team of mainly South Australian performers and invited us all to join the party. With a backdrop of scenes of Rio, the high energy dance routines were accompanied by upbeat music and song. …
Mar 05
A Place That Belongs to Monsters – Fringe 2023 – 5K
The Treasury Courtyard on a balmy Adelaide evening. Hidden away from the bustle of the city with a honeysuckle-like scent wafting over us from a nearby tree and the lovely voice of Brenda Lee serenading us with “The End of the World”. In a world within a world, the stage was set for an hour …
Mar 04
Leather Lungs : Higher Love – Fringe 2023 – 4.5K
The stupendous voice of this outrageously original anarchic chanteuse and raconteur took us on a journey through their recent and traumatic romantic past. Which was much much more fun than that sounds. Truly, for him, laughter is the best medicine (along with lashings of love from family and friends). The vocal gymnastics were truly amazing …
Mar 04
The Purple Rabbit Rides Again – Fringe 2023 – 4K
Take a wild ride down the rabbit hole with a fluffle of super talented performers in this upbeat high energy show. With great music, special effects and a charismatic cast the audience were hooked and keen to be involved from the start. Dom Chambers, the Fake Wizard, tied the show together with humour and displays …
Feb 24
The Party – Fringe 2023 – 5K
We were invited to a party – and that is it certainly what it was. The Party conjured up memories of all the parties I’ve ever been to (and some that I’ve missed out on!). All the usual suspects were there including the inevitable gatecrasher, the crazies, the show-offs, the practical jokers, and the lovelorn. …
Feb 23
Laurie Black : Dystopiano – Fringe 2023 – Cabaret – 5K
Laurie Black is back for the first time since 2019 with her digital piano and original synthrock songs. What has she been doing? : touring with Adam Ant and planning a trip to the moon of course. Make sure to catch her at the Fringe if, like me, you are weary of the seemingly endless …
Feb 19
Fringe 2023 : Creme de la Creme : The Vault, Fools Paradise : 5K
Unsure about what to see at the Fringe? Creme de la Creme is a great place to start because the show features a variety of superbly talented artists who are all appearing elsewhere across the Fringe. Expect to see performances by aerialists, magicians, acrobats, and jugglers combined with lashings of hilarity. Presented by Head First …
Mar 11
FRINGE 2020 – Renfield : In the Shadow of the Vampire – 4K
Is it madness to want to live forever? What lengths would you go to in order to postpone death? To maintain your youth, strength, vitality? This darkly funny production poses these questions and more. Nominally set in a lunatic asylum of the late 1800s the ideas it contains are pertinent to today’s world where we …
Mar 05
Fringe 2020 : The Wild Unfeeling World : 4K
In the intimate setting of the Garden at Holden Street Theatres Casey Jay Andrews brings this sad, funny tale to life with wit and compassion. Protagonist Dylan feels that her life is falling apart. A mugging has left her without money or phone. She has just lost her job and has been asked to leave …
Mar 01
Fringe 2020 : The Nights by Henry Naylor : 5K
The Nights is a brilliantly executed piece of theatre by three times Fringe First Award winning playwright Henry Naylor. Set in Britain in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Syria it deals with how our lives have been transformed by those events. It exposes the moral ambiguities that arise when we …
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