It didn’t take long to work out what show to see last night at the Adelaide Fringe with my old friend Justin. ‘Livvy & Pete: The Songs of Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen’ at the Garden of Unearthly Delights leaped out of the program. I expected Michael Griffiths and Amelia Ryan to sing beautifully, and they…
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Mar
My friend Rebecca (plus her friend Linda, who’s now become a friend of mine as well) and I have kind of started a tradition of going to Original Joe’s restaurant after baseball games in San Francisco. I say ‘kind of’ because we’ve done it twice in less than a year. The second time, it was…
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Mar
The Australian newspaper has described La La Land being wrongly named as the Best Picture winner as the ‘worst blooper’ in the history of the Oscars. But was it? The Academy Awards have caused some wonderful things to happen. Jacki Weaver never looked like making it in Hollywood until out of nowhere, her chilling performance…
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Feb
The Falklands (known in Argentina as Islas Malvinas or Las Malvinas) are an archipelago, roughly the size of Wales, largely sheep farms, about 550 kilometres east of the South American mainland. They never had an indigenous human population, though there were, and still are, plenty of penguins. In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a…
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Feb
Last September, outside the Tate Modern, and a little further down the Thames.
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Feb
Were you happy with ticket sales? Overall yes. Despite two days of bizarre winter weather, on average we were 85% full. Small independent shows like mine don’t normally do as well as that at Fringe World in Perth. I’ve seen some very good shows from talented artists with mostly empty seats. Were you pleased with…
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Feb
The Sound of a Social Climbing Nun is over … for now. Here are some pictures from the final night.
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Feb
I’m having fun with the material now, and thankfully, my audiences also seem to be enjoying it. My friend John Dickie was at this performance, as he was the night before. He’d flown from Melbourne just to see it. I’ve had a few other friends come from interstate to watch the show, which makes me…
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Feb
