Anthony Bourdain wrote about Waffle House with the kind of admiration that Adelaidians talk about Rhino Room: a bright, unpretentious refuge where you can walk in at any day and be taken care of. Rhino Room Late Show, indeed, Rhino Room as a whole, carries that same warm-beacon energy. It’s a place of safety and nourishment for Fringe nights when you’re a bit inebriated, when you want to keep the party going, feel the need for laughs, or when you just need to sit in the dark and let…

Good Man builds toward a moment that, on paper, sounds like the centre of everything: the first time 17 year old Connor meets his father. But the real punch is what surrounds it, the hour before the gig, the lead-up, the looping thoughts, the tiny choices, and hopes at the pub gig that feel small and big respectively, until they are not. Much like parts of our lives we think are missing and we build up that fail to match our dreams and fantasies, the greatest reward is often what we…