Category: Cabaret

Cabaret

FRINGE 2016: Gym Junkie – 4K

By Anthony Nguyen Dressed in brightly coloured, tight-fitting activewear, Lisa-Marie Ryan represents the modern woman (and man) who has a complicated love-hate relationship with going to the gym. Ryan’s one-woman cabaret show, befittingly titled Gym Junkie, presents a hilarious 12-step guide to help start your gym experience; going through all topics from workout clothes to …

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FRINGE 2016: Dinner with the Stars Show – 4K

By Anthony Nguyen Once again, the Adelaide Fringe proves that there are many quality shows that appeal to the older adult crowd, and one great example of this is the Dinner with the Stars Show. Featuring The Desirables of award-winning Adelaide band, Pulse, live music entertainment is provided all night long in a 4 hour …

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Fringe 2016 : A Blues And Burlesque : ” It’s You It’s Not Me” : La Boheme : Rating 3.5K

Accomplished Blues piano and clever songwriting.

FRINGE 2016 – Puddles Pity Party – Garden – Rating 4.5K – Review by Julie Robins

The queue that formed after the show to wait for Puddles cuddles showed just how many hearts this show won. 4.5K

Fringe 2016 – Yeti’s Demon Dive Bar – The Garden of Unearthly Delights – The Deluxe– 4K

By Tom Eckert Yeti’s Demon Dive Bar, a production from EastEnd Cabaret and Dead Man Comedy who also brought us East End Caberet, presents us with another exercise in the delightfully absurd. You soon give up on following the narrative of this show for, whilst it is there, it swings so rapidly between the earnest and …

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FRINGE 2016 – CABARET – Peter Goers in Actors Drunks etc – 4.5K

Peter Goers is great and this show is a gem. 4.5K

The Garden of Unearthly Delights 2016 Preview

By Peter Maddern No matter the sometimes lame efforts of the Fringe Office to promote otherwise (where is this year’s street parade going?), The Garden of Unearthly Delights is well entrenched as the spiritual home of the Adelaide Fringe. As the years have gone on, so it seems the Garden continues to grow, now nearly …

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CABARET – Club Swizzle – Space – 4K

For great fun this holiday season Club Swizzle is the place to be. 4K

THEATRE – Ladybird Superstars – Bonython Park – 2.5K

While the second half was better than the first, unless transgender is your stuff, there are better cabaret shows that come through town. 2.5K

CABARET FESTIVAL – Eddie Perfect: Songs from the Middle – Dunstan Playhouse – 4K

With Songs from the Middle, Eddie Perfect shows that there can be stories worth telling found in even the most mundane of settings. In this case, that setting is the comfortable, middle class town of Mentone, Victoria, and the stories focus on both the town itself and its history, plus Perfect’s experience of growing up …

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