Peter Maddern

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OzAsia Festival – Fearless Nadia 4.5K

Fun in every dimension, Fearless Nadia is a must see feature of this year’s OzAsia festival. 4.5K

Bangarra Dance Company – TERRAIN – 4K

All aspects of the TERRAIN production are deeply woven together and the dancers are on top of their games at about the mid-point of their Australian season. 4K

Film – SAFC announces Digital360Lab

Digital360Lab will equip producers, writers and developers of feature film, television, interactive and multiplatform projects to take advantage of the burgeoning possibilities in the digital space. See post for details on applying

SALA – What’s Your Crutch? – Kat Coppock & Fiona Gardner – The Reading Room

This is certainly ambitious, especially on a weekly basis, but the personal dynamics between the two artists, Kat Coppock and Fiona Gardner, certainly comes through.

A Lion In The Night – Patch – Odeon – Til Sat 18th

For those who get to this show early enough and are seated in the front rows, the beauty and wonder of Theo and Angelie’s world will captivate and be most agreeable. Highlight scenes are the Royal Soup, the Royal Tea and Many Sounds.

Israeli Film Festival 2012 – Adel at Palace – 5 – 9 Sept

The expanded AICE Israeli Film Festival provides more opportunities than ever before for Australian audiences to experience the rich diversity of Israeli film. See post for details.

Biddies – Her Majesty’s – 3K

All the cast breath great life and energy into their roles and Biddies sustains itself on the high side of enjoyable over laboured but as a ‘cape diem’ piece, Dead Poets Society this is not.

SALA – The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize – 3.5K

The Waterhouse does deliver on variety and approach to its natural world focus as well as at any previous time. 3.5K

Adel Guitar Festival – The Punch Brothers – 4K

Interactions between band members are a highlight, members turning deferentially to watch the man in the periodic spot light of a solo but then also at times engaging in pairs in either rhythmical partnering or feverish dueling of their instruments. The ability to combine so coherently and with such sparkle and brilliance these five stringed forces is often breath taking. 4K

2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival’s perfect pitch

Following the success of his first Festival in 2010, Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan has again hit a top note with the 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival blitzing the previous Festival’s box office record by more than 25 per cent.