Browsing All Posts By James Murphy
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9Score2024 Adelaide Cabaret Festival Review – The Variety Gala
The variety gala started in a hot and sultry manner when the host Virgina Gray came out of a hot tub signalling the perfect way to kick off ...
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9ScoreTina: The Tina Turner Musical at Festival Theatre Review
Biographical retellings of iconic lives, like in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical must inevitably overcome a pair of challenges: can you cast a star who possesses the same ...
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7Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – The Jungle Book
Akram Khan’s climate dystopian adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book features the majestic choreography that Khan is known for but, for the first time, heavily relies on ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – Angelique Kidjo
In her 63 years on the planet, Angelique Kidjo’s cultural and humanitarian impact is difficult to summarise and to quantify. Five Grammy Awards, a Times Top 100 Most ...
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6Score2024 Adelaide Fringe Review – Sh!tfaced Shakespeare- Macbeth
Sh!tfaced Shakespeare, where one of five classically trained actors appears on stage heavily intoxicated on a rotating schedule, is a little like a night of blackout drunkenness: it’s ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – The Threepenny Opera
A week after the Adelaide Festival premiere of Robert Leprage’s lavish Stravinsky opera, comes famed operatic director Barry Kosky’s production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s epic theatre ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – Qui a tué mon père (Who killed my father)
Like D.H. Lawrence, Frank McCourt and, more recently, our own Jimmy Barnes, Édouard Louis weaves poverty into poetry, gives voice to the men who work the factory floors ...
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9Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – The Promise
While the Royal Court Theatre collaboration between Dutch chanson star WENDE, designer Chloe Lamford, composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, director Imogen Knight and half a dozen playwrights and novelists is ...
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8Score2024 Adelaide Fringe Review – Josh Thomas
In 2021, comedian and International Emmy Award winning television personality Josh Thomas revealed his autism diagnosis on Instagram. Three years later, in collaboration with American-Australian playwright Lally Katz, ...
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7.5Score2024 Adelaide Festival Review – Guurunda
Guurunda, which takes its name from the Narungga word for the Yorke Peninsula, is a mixed-medium and technologically cutting edge sharing of 10000-year-old creation stories. Guuranda is a ...