Peter Maddern

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Jun 07

CABARET FESTIVAL – Meow Meow – 3.5K

In a show more focused on her singing than her silliness compared to two years ago, Meow Meow allowed her audience to better appreciate her strength of voice and delivery confirming her position as one of Australia’s finest performers and show people. 3.5K

Jun 07

CABARET FESTIVAL – Adam Hills – 1K

One can only speculate what led to this cock-up. 1K

Jun 01

THEATRE – Reasons To Be Pretty – Bakehouse – Preview – From 11th June

Love should be blind, shouldn’t it? The Bakehouse Theatre celebrates the return of award winning Director Joh Hartog (who also directed The Shape of Things) in this brutal examination of the male/female relationship . From11th June

May 19

THEATRE – Small Gods – Bakehouse – Til 30th May – 4K

Always a delight for Pratchett fans and good fun for those who aren’t with Tedmanson a name worth noting for the future. 4K

May 19

FILM – Touch – Released Thursday 21st May – 3K

All the actors do a great job, with Day particularly haunting, but the producers would have done well to keep knocking on investors’ doors before embarking on what finishes up as a flawed product. 3K

May 13

VISUAL ARTS – Basil Sellers Art Prize 4 (for Sport) – Samstag Art Museum – 3.5K

Those interested in their sport will find the Basil Sellers Art Prize a worthwhile challenge and those looking for decent ‘art’ in sport will also be well rewarded. 3.5K

Apr 29

THEATRE – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – Playhouse – 3.5K

The shortcoming in what is otherwise a terrifically enjoyable evening is Geordie Brookman’s attempts as director to modernise the setting of the play. 3.5K

Apr 25

THEATRE – Le Noir – Festival Theatre – Til May 2 – 4K

It is doubtful circus has ever been this daring and sensual with Le Noir rather more thrilling than its title may suggest. 4K

Apr 22

FILM – Boy Choir – 3.5K – Opens 23rd April

Boy Choir is a moving, veritable tear jerker. The briefest of synopsis would be Whiplash meets Pretty Woman mixed with Bob Connolly’s Mrs Carey’s Concert. 3.5K

Apr 15

FILM – The Gunman – Released 16 April – 3.5K

If you enjoy action, suspense, the Taken franchise or just general Sean Penn-ery then you will surely not be disappointed. 3.5K