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The audience was totally enthralled by this interpretation of the story of Nyai Ontosoroh; her life journey from childhood, gaining strength through adversity, to eventually achieve independence and control of her own destiny.

Each year the Adelaide Festival Centre presents the unique and exciting OzAsia Festival, and the opening performance this year was this remarkable work, Meeting With Bodhisattva, from U-Theatre of Taiwan.

This is the tale of Laura Jesson, who gets a speck of coal dust in her eye whilst standing on the railway platform, and Alec Harvey, the handsome young doctor who administers first aid

Many of those responsible for the worst war crimes managed to escape to South America. This play puts the focus on the children of those escapees.

William Makepeace Thackeray subtitled his mid eighteenth century story, Vanity Fair, "a novel without a hero", as every one of his characters has flaws, some more than others, which he makes clear in his tale.

This performance will have you smiling, laughing, foot tapping, clapping, and going home talking about it for ages after.

State Opera of South Australia started their main stage programme for the year with a powerful production of Salome, with a libretto by Richard Strauss based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play. Richard Strauss, of course, also wrote the score of the opera

Sir Noel Coward's witty play about a couple who cannot live together, but cannot live without one another, is being given a chance to shine again at the ARTS Theatre, thanks to the Therry Dramatic Society.

Milla is fourteen, and is not going to live to be fifteen due to that insidious disease, cancer. Danielle Catanzariti portrays the dying Milla, a tragic figure, stirring the sympathy of the audience and dampening eyes of quite a few.

This play follows a young boxer from Bankstown, Billy "The Kid" Dib, as he prepares himself for the world featherweight title fight and we meet several other boxers along the way. These are their own words.

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild is celebrating its 75th Anniversary, and so William Shakespeare seems an appropriate choice of playwright for such an auspicious occasion.

Vika Bull and a seven piece group, The Essential R&B Band, present a musical documentary of the life of the late Etta James, one of the most important names in Rhythm and Blues, and perhaps also the most tragic.

Thomas Hardy wrote several novels set in the imaginary county of Wessex, occurring in the late 1800s, and Far From the Madding Crowd is presented by Independent Theatre in an adaptation by Mark Healy.

Noel and Gertie is filled with humour, wit, and occasionally poignant moments, songs, dances, and excerpts from his plays, with all of the sparkling dialogue that that entails.

The word 'dysfunctional' is barely adequate to describe the Dockerty family, who live in the working class Sydney suburb of Redfern in the 1950s, the subject of This Old Man Comes Rolling Home.

Charles Dickens wrote a good few popular novels, most of which have been dramatised many times and a few of which have been turned into musicals. Perhaps the best know of these is Lionel Bart's Oliver!

Popular Adelaide entertainer, Anya Anastasia, has branched out into a new area by bringing together a selection of acts into a cabaret variety show filled with music, dance, burlesque and more. She has called it Fear-Eater Theatre, which gives an indication that some of the material might be dark, edgy and even a little challenging.

There would be few people who have not heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood, a cautionary tale warning of what we now refer to as "stranger danger" and, let's face it, they don't come much stranger than a talking wolf.

One of Shakespeare's earliest works, and his shortest, The Comedy of Errors is an exciting first time collaboration between the illustrious and highly respected specialist group, Bell Shakespeare, and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. It is premiering in Adelaide before embarking on an Australian tour during the months ahead.

Jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck, put together a quartet that played during the 1950s and 60s and that put out the first platinum selling jazz album, with the title Time Out. It contained the track, Take Five, which became the top selling instrumental piece of all time. Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Story is a tribute to that particular incarnation of the quartet.