Pokémon is an aging millennial’s shared language; I say that as an aging millennial. It has also transcended generations, and now very small humans are forming loud opinions about their favourites. Pokemania is inescapable. It started as video games in the mid-90s, then quickly expanded into an anime on cheeseTV, huge film's starting in the year 2000, a trading card game, and a whole ecosystem of main-series titles and spin-offs. The early internet helped lock it in, turning sch…
A grave delight from start to finish. This spooky-scary little lantern-lit wander throu…
Father Andrea came bearing absurdity, ritual and holy foolishness, and the congregation o…
*Read as 1950's radio presenter* A show that dives into its genre like a dame into danger and grabs the audience with real gusto, see. Great Detectives: Heist, Camera, Action! is a swell night out for lovers of vintage crime, theatrical flair and a good old-fashioned whodunit, with sharp vocal character work giving every scene its own colour and a cast whose sparkling chemistry keeps the w…
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Emma DignonThe CAN Principle follows Merv, a South African immigrant, inventor-entrepreneur and se…
Whether you’re a believer in the supernatural, ghouls and ghosts, or you remain a scept…
This is the beginning. Charlie starts slowly, rattling on as an old man, lamenting a life that could have been more. He reminisces with the audience like we’re old friends, and there’s a bittersweetness to it that sneaks up on you. Then, almost without warning, it turns into a bright, absurdist meditation, with surprisingly tender commentary on the circle of end of life. Most of all, I think th…
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Emma DignonTayla in Oz is a delightful little cabaret with a tremendous amount of heart. Tayla Ale…
Giuseppe Alfresco is a strange Italian beach boy on a doomed, delightful quest for love…
Anthony Bourdain wrote about Waffle House with the kind of admiration that Adelaidians …
Garry Starr is still a glorious menace, manhandling the crowd’s bodies, souls, and mind…
What is a woman. What is a cat. What is a woman pretending to be a cat. None of these questions will be answered, and thank god, because PUSS PUSS is pushing that glass off the bench. Puss Puss cultivates a show you couldn’t be bored of in nine lives. Our feline purrtagonist gets distracted by everything, becomes intensely fixated on an audience member, then decides she hates them for no reason…
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Emma DignonSumazing! Part sumo, part sumo tragic comedy, part sumo child beat-down. Fun for the wh…
Nun Slut made me do more hip thrusts to expel the devil, locked in eye contact with the…
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