Browsing All Posts By James Murphy
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8Score2025 Adelaide Festival Review – Club Armour
In Club Amour, a triptych of works by Pina Bausch and Boris Charmatz, performed by Pina’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, now led by Boris, explores our universal need to seek ...
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Stone Temple Pilots at Hindley Street Music Hall Review
Hindley Street Music Hall was packed to bursting in what Stone Temple Pilot’s front-man Jeff Gutt referred to as a Mad Max Thunderdome, as three tiers of fans ...
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7Score2025 Adelaide Festival Review – A Quiet Language
Dan Riley’s new Australian Dance Theatre work draws on 60 years of ADT history, while simultaneously exploring the themes of people, politics, place, voice and body, all while ...
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8Score2025 Adelaide Festival Review – Feeling Afraid
UK star of stage and screen Samuel Barnett motors through a sixty-five minute scripted stand-up routine in Marcelo Dos Santos’ Edinburgh Fringe hit one-hander, Feeling Afraid As If ...
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9ScoreLimbo The Return at Adelaide Fringe Review
Scored by the found sounds of New York composer Sxip Shirey, of The Daredevil Opera Company, Strut and Fret’s Limbo- The Return doesn’t leave you hanging; you will ...
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2025 Wildlands Festival at Ellis Park Review
Despite the threats of an afternoon thunderstorm, and the storms engulfing the Australian music festival landscape, Wildlands in Adelaide was wilder than ever. While recent years have seen ...
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9ScoreAdelaide Film Festival Review – Homegrown
Homegrown is a 2024 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Premo. The film follows three right-wing activists during the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Once they become ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – Between the Covers
In 2017, after 11 cherished years, the ABC’s The Book Club ended, with host Jennifer Byrne saying she’d forgotten what it was like to read for pleasure. Cabaret ...
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8Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – Musical Bang Bang
What began as a monthly improv night in the basement of a 150 year-old hotel nearKings Cross in 2017, has adapted into Musical Bang Bang: a gloriously unscriptedhour ...
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9ScoreBad Boys: Rise or Die Review
The fourth entry into the iconic Will Smith and Martin Lawrence buddy cop comedy series, Bad Boys, slaps hard. Filmed in the shadow of the notorious Oscars incident, ...