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DI AND VIV AND ROSE: A Review

By Lauren Shallow *This review contains spoilers, as well as mentions of sexual assault. Di and Viv and Rose presented by the Corseted Rabbits collective and hosted by Rumpus, is the Adelaide production company’s take on Amelia Bullmore’s 2011 play of the same name. Rumpus was an extremely welcoming theatre company; after briefly showing our tickets […]

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WE WATCHED FROZEN AND IT WAS EPIC

Words by Habibah Jaghoori & Chanel Trezise Being On Dit editors has its perks and being sent to watch the hit Broadway musical Frozen by the fabulous The Peach & Pineapple Co. is definitely one of them. The show was everything we could have imagined and more. Hosted at the iconic Adelaide Festival Theatre, we […]

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A Midsummer’s Night Dream — Review

Words by Beck Rowse Photography by Richard Parkhill The moon hangs outside the Little Theatre. Inside, stage lights mimic the shade of the May night sky. Anticipation snakes under and around the audience’s ankles, locking them in place. You can hear rumbling. Actors dancing steps down onto the stage as though each carried by beetle’s wings. […]

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REVIEW — Grief Lightning: A Satire in 78 Slides at RUMPUS theatre

Words by Ngoc Lan Tran The show’s writer and solo performer Mary Angley personifies a lecturer who desperately tries to prove the popular Grease fan theory. Photo credit: Matthew Steen In an abandoned warehouse known for welcoming identities living on the fringe, a stage is simply set for a lecture held seemingly in secret. A projection […]

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REVIEW: Liars & Clowns — An Adelaide Fringe Comedy Show

Words by Lauren Shallow A ‘revolving door’ of various fringe comics…no two shows will be alike. Banner for ‘Liars & Clowns’ Late Night Comedy Show Liars & Clowns is a late-night comedy special pitched as a ‘revolving door,’ of various fringe comics, each show boasting a different bill. The show is hosted in an upstairs room […]

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Adelaide Fringe Review: ScoMo’s Sunday Service

Words by Ngoc Lan Tran https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/scomo-s-sunday-service-af2022 Genre: Musical comedy Presented by: George Glass In a secluded curtained corner of Currie St’s Arthur ART BAR, I went to church. Not particularly keen on meeting God on a Friday night, I downed a glass of Riesling before service and brought an atheist friend for company. Ushered into our seats, we […]

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Theatre review: Hamlet in the Other Room

Words by Ivan Jankovic To wander at will between two rooms — an exciting and dangerous theatre experience Image by Jamie Hornsby Directed by Zola Allen Written by Zola Allen & William Shakespeare In the University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library, no fewer than half a dozen modestly-sized shelves house critical works on that most mysterious phenomenon of […]

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Theatre Review: Clock for No Time

Words by Falie Klieve and Orla Spurr An honest and inventive production about the lived experience of disability Writer and director Michèle Saint-Yves. Venue: Rumpus Theatre, Bowden Written and directed by Michèle Saint-Yves Written by Michèle Saint-Yves and part of RUMPUS theatre’s new season, Clock for No Time asks that perennial question — what makes us, us? What […]

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Love & Virtue

By Diana Reid Reviewed by Michelle Roylance “It’s fucked,” I said. “Like if you don’t think about it too much then it’s so fun. All the parties and being surrounded by friends all the time. But that’s the problem, right?” – pg 48. Love & Virtue encompasses everything about university that is and is not […]

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Review: 4000 Miles (Adelaide University Theatre Guild)

Words by Beck Rowse Grief, politics, and family take centre-stage in Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer finalist Laura Antoniazzi and Jackson Barnard in 4000 Miles. Venue: Little Theatre, University of Adelaide Directed by Erik Strauts Written by Amy Herzog Length: 2 hours + intermission You sit on a couch in a cosy New York apartment. Your feet rest on a […]