Three quick picks
Peter Burdon throws the spotlight on three queer-themed productions coming to the Adelaide Fringe 2012: Early Worx, Richard Fry and Road Movie.
EARLY WORX
The ambitious Charles Sanders (pictured) and his Early Worx troupe are aiming high in the Fringe, presenting no less than three shows. Sanders is a magnetic presence, and stars himself in Queer: The Wicked Webs We Weave where he considers, in spoken word and song, the darker side of passion. He then directs the impressive trio of Hannah Bennett, Elizabeth Hay, and Amy Victoria Brooks in Ladies in Waiting and, astonishingly, Chrissy Page and Anna Cheney in Joanna Murray-Smith’s Love Child. Sanders won the 2011 Adelaide Critics Circle Emerging Artist of the Year Award. Come and see why. Early Worx is based at Higher Ground.
Check Fringe Guide for details adelaidefringe.com.au
RICHARD FRY
Among the many visitors to our shores for Fringe 2012, two can rightly feature on your dance card. Richard Fry has presented two hard-hitting and powerful monologues in the past, Bully and Smiler, and in 2012 gives us The Ballad of the Unbeatable Hearts, inspired from searching stories of gay youth suicide. Fry is firmly grounded in the queer community, and much of his passionate work is informed by his lived experience of his sexuality, for good and for bad, especially the twin curses of stigma and bigotry. His rhythmic, poetic writing is genius. Higher Ground, various dates for the whole of the Fringe.
Check Fringe Guide for details adelaidefringe.com.au
ROAD MOVIE
From the Sunshine State, actor Dirk Hoult is here presenting Road Movie which recently bowled audiences over at Midsumma. A memorable story about the impact of HIV and AIDS, written nearly twenty years ago now, its message still rings loud and clear. Hoult remembers his own childhood fear of the Grim Reaper all those years ago, and brings this powerfully to bear on a much acclaimed performance. On at the Adelaide Town Hall from February 25 to March 3.
Check Fringe Guide for details adelaidefringe.com.au
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About the Author
Peter Burdon
Peter grew up in country SA and moved to the city to go to uni. On his second day in Adelaide he discovered the Duke of York Hotel and the Mars Bar, and the rest is history! He has a long involvement in the arts, and in 1997 began writing for Adelaide GT little knowing what was in store. He has since contributed to all but three issues of GT and subsequently blaze, even filing an article from a hotel in Valencia. He works extensively as a freelance critic, and is Chair of the Adelaide Critics Circle.
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