Barry Lenny - Page 58

The Adelaide Festival had many excellent productions to offer but, for me, this was the stand out performance for this year.

It is hardly necessary to tell anybody in Adelaide what sensational voices these two possess, or what marvellous all round entertainers they are.

This is a highly energetic show that will keep you laughing from start to finish.

Card magic doesn't get any better than this. The entire audience was completely baffled.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a modern retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic tale of a mariner and his crew.

Having pirates brandishing cutlasses as the ringing tones of Gilbert's and Sullivan's famous operetta sounded out over the river was a fabulous experience.

Everyone in the cast contributed to this memorable, magical, performance in a way that showed hours of preparation, thoroughness, and passion.

Once again, Conlin has successfully presented a sophisticated cabaret performance that connected with every person in the audience.

This is a simply great event, with a mix of nightclub, art, cool tech, geekism, cocktails, and cupcakes. What more could you want?

You will be entranced, entertained, and given food for thought as Bob Paisley demonstrates what a really great actor can do with a superb script. Don't miss this performance.

This performance was a side-splittingly hilarious journey through Waters's life and some of his greatest films

Produced by Batsheva Dance Company, Sadeh21 was choreographed by Ohad Naharin, the company's Artistic Director.

MacCulloch is one of the most insightful and well-spoken speakers to have graced the Adelaide Writers' Week in recent years.

The play gave us the discomfort of holding our phones up to mirror ourselves in an ultimately chilling look at currently socially accepted mores and politics.

This was a wonderful toe-tapping evening of raw and raunchy blues and jazz, sung wonderfully by Jayne-Anne Power.

This is the sort of theatre that keeps one going back, often sitting through nights of dross, just waiting for something like this to make it all worthwhile.

Sufi Soul is more than a glimpse into Sufi music, it's an event which makes you feel that you have stepped into a private party in another part of the world.

With gentle charm and humour, this mime artist draws you into his domain, using his body in ways that seem impossible.

If you like high quality, memorable music, superbly performed, with a clever and informative narrative, then you will love this unique cabaret production.

In short, it is a triumph. Make sure that you get tickets to this, as theatre doesn't get much better.