111 stories by "Mick Searles"
2015 has been a mixed year in the world of South Australian Arts. Big names in big Festivals have attracted big audiences. The State has seen Federal Arts funding de-funded and syphoned off …
Next weekend, on Saturday 14th November, the 2-week-long 2015 LGBTIQ Feast Festival officially opens. This year's headlining act is the internationally renowned, 2014 Eurovision Song Contest…
The Adelaide Festival Centre has launched its 2016 programme. The season features a range of international artists from the UK, Spain, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, The Netherlands, USA, China a…
There isn't any sense in which this play could be called (in Mrs Everage's words), a "nice night's entertainment". It's very title, Mortido is Freud's term for the death wish, which immediat…
From the first oozings over the audience chatter, of the live music from the very accomplished Zephyr Quartet, to the very first sentence from the actors, it was clear that this was no ordin…
The late Pina Bausch played the role of matchmaker to Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa and hence the immaculate conception of Play was borne. Play is the gentle art of love &#…
David Sefton has revealed the programme for his 4th and final as the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2016. Sefton stated, "For my last hurrah, I've brought together a s…
The State Theatre Company of South Australia has announced its 2016 Programme. Co-productions represent the defining feature of the season with 6 of the 10 shows made so; including a new par…
The work of Ben Johnson (1572 " 1637) is nowhere near as well-known as that of Shakespeare, but he is nevertheless a very important English playwright. So the language, even in this fine new…
This review comes with a caveat. The 20-something yuppie woman in front of me thought it was a brilliant idea to see a show with two columns of hair, each six inches high, packed neatly side…
There is nothing new about infidelity, but there is always something fresh about Pinter. No wonder he got a Nobel Prize. His writing is incisive, perceptive and accessible, and Betrayal is o…
When the house lights finally went down in The Dunstan Playhouse to begin the Programme launch of the 2015 OzAsia Festival, a small child called out "Yay" and the entire audience broke out i…
In Love Songs For Sir Les, Barry Humphries bids farewell to his one and only stint as the Artistic Director to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with an ode to the outrageously disgusting Sir Le…
When you add self centred-ness, concrete thinking, closed-mindedness and power struggles to a serious dose of intellectual and emotional immaturity and superficiality, the results in terms o…
Much loved and respected Australian actor Bob Hornery has passed away yesterday with his daughter Jane Goodman and friend Richard Piper at his side. Working in both the UK and Austral…
The 'Come Out' Children's Festival opens today with 1600 school children performing as the 'Mighty Choir of Small Voices' on the Adelaide Oval footbridge. The children will sing Daddy Cool's…
This morning it was announced Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy have been appointed Co-Artistic Directors for the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Both are Australian born …
Just about every Australian knows about "The Doll", but not everyone has had the opportunity to see it. It is a play that has become part of Australia's history and psyche and one that every…
My hand is getting better now and I have picked up my jaw from the floor of the Festival Theatre. The strength of my wife's tense grip on my hand through this jaw dropping spectacle surprise…
With much celebration Australia's favourite octogenarian Barry Humphries has launched his programme for the 2015 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. With the moniker "putting the "F" back into Festiv…
Prominent Australian theatre producer John Frost has announced that his new production of the iconic musical Dirty Dancing will be heading to his own hometown of Adelaide in September for a …
Adelaide Town Hall's elegant Auditorium hosted Terry Edwards' Blow the Bloody Doors Off!! " A symposium of the music from four of Michael Caine's best-known films from the period 1965-'71 (T…
Sure, there is some humour in the Bible, but this extraordinary piece of theatre turns it into a very funny, whilst irreverent but respectful romp! Who, other than the creative genius of the…
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Company comes to the 2015 Adelaide Festival of Arts with a big reputation. It needs to be said that reputation is thoroughly deserved. The company presents two…
Arvo Pärt is one of the most enduring revolutionary composers of choral and instrumental music of the 20th century. Carl Crossin has been a major influence in the presentation and acceptanc…
