Browsing All Posts By James Murphy
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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, ...
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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 ...