Month: January 2019

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Ruby Slipper Chronicles – Adelaide Fringe 2019

“Dropping houses on witches……stealing shoes from bitches.”
Intrigued yet? I am!
This comedic cabaret and its award winning creator and star, Aurélie Roque, is coming to Adelaide for the first time this Fringe. Sam About Town was lucky enough to to break into Aurélie’s busy schedule to find out more.

Ruby slipper Chronicles – Aurelie Roque

SAT: You won’t really drop a house on us will you? Please tell us more. Do we need to bring a hard hat?

AR: Look, I can’t promise I’ll “bring the house down” (pun completely intended), but I’m about to do my darndest! In all honesty, this all about sitting back and laughing (and sometimes crying) along with me at the bizarre stories that make up my life since my move to Australia.

SAT: How closely does this cabaret follow the story of Wizard of OZ and what was your inspiration for creating this show?

AR: Considering I moved from Kansas to Oz during a tornado (my plane almost wasn’t allowed to take off), I’ve found it very strange how similar the two adventures actually are! I’ve said it before, but I didn’t write this show; this show seems to write ME. Once I started looking at the similarities, so many more just came barreling at me. Granted, I talk more about metaphorical lions, tinmen, and scarecrows, but the coincidences are just too obvious NOT to spot. And the crazy thing is, my story isn’t over yet! Each time I’ve done this cabaret, it’s been a little different, with new stories to tell. So it’s almost like the show is a living, breathing entity.

Read more of Sam interview with Aurelie HERE

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Red Light Confidential – Adelaide Fringe 2019

“We have weirdos, freaks, lovemakers and even some heartbreakers. We’re going to show some leg and make a shimmy.”

If that doesn’t make you want to snap up a ticket to one of the hottest shows in the Fringe, then read on and be ready to be convinced! Red Light Confidential is a showcase of burlesque, circus, cabaret, music, comedy and magic and is one of the most popular and well known touring variety shows in the country.

Sam About Town chatted recently with producers Kelly Ann Doll and Michael Wheatley.

SAT: The type of acts and experience level of performers in a Red Light Confidential show is so varied and yet you manage to coordinate it into one cohesive show. Could you tell us more about this format that has “newbies rubbing shoulders with seasoned pros”?

RLC: We started as an industry night, we wanted to provide a safe space for performers to try out new acts and for newbies to get a handle on the ropes. 

SAT: With such a variety of performers, do you find there is a creative exchange of ideas including mentoring from the more experienced performers and fresh energy and new ideas from the emerging acts?

RLC: Definitely. There are so many connections that have been made from artists meeting and networking at the show over the years and we’ve watched people go from being stage kittens to successful name artists. 

Read more about what Red light Confidential had to say about their upcoming Adelaide Fringe season HERE

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My Grandmothers M.A.I.D – Adelaide Fringe 2019

Award winning Canadian comedian, actor and playwright, Dion Arnold, is an international success, touring around the world to high acclaim and he brings to Adelaide his show, ‘My Grandmother’s M.A.I.D.’ If his credentials aren’t enough to entice you, then one of his reviews should, “Even his laugh is funny.” – what more could you ask for!

SAT: The subject matter of your show is very serious and also personal. How is it also a comedy? Can you tell us more about it?

DA: haha I love this about Australians.. Serious and personal?! How can that be funny? Haha but that’s all I know how to make fun of! Myself and things that need to be taken down a peg. Like myself!

Humour comes from the juxtaposition of our expectation vs. reality. Misdirection (expectation) and reveal (Reality). Take my show for instance, the expectation is that death is sad, ( Oh, did no one know it’s about death? Oh, well, it’s not. It’s about… bunnings. Yeah. bunnings. And snags.) but the ensuing reality of the situation that my family experienced was so far from sad. It was hilarious in fact, because my grandmother was so happy. And that expectation being flipped on its head is what made the situation so funny, and is the reason why this show is a comedy and is why the humour works.


We are certainly being spoilt this Adelaide Fringe! Read the full interview with Sam in the link HERE

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Pity Party – Adelaide Fringe 2019

“Two friends follow their dream of creating a sketch show, but as the night goes on they realise their dreams might be a little out of reach. It’s comedy, it’s burlesque, it’s slap stick, it’s Sweaty Pits’ debut show, it’s harder than they thought. A sketch show for those who question what they are doing with their lives and then do it anyway.”

Sam About Town was curious to find out more! Luckily co-creators Frankie McNair and Miriam Slater were happy to oblige.

Pity Party – Adelaide fringe 2019

SAT: Welcome to Adelaide Fringe! Excited?

SP: Excited?! Adelaide Fringe has late night churros, rides, and some of the best performers in the country! You better believe we are excited! CHURROS!

SAT: You wrote your first sketch together in 2016 and have been developing ideas since. Can you tell us more about this show and what inspired you to write it?

SP: This show is an absurd, silly, self reflection on what happens when you riff with your best friend too hard and two years later you are somehow holding an hour long show in your hot little hands. How did we get here? We don’t know. But thank you for having us. The actual show is made up of our favourite sketches and leads to us questioning if what we love doing is valid enough to peruse it with as much vigour as we currently are. It’s heaps meta. 

READ the Full interview HERE

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Is Steve Chang’s Fringe show really ‘A Complete Waste of Time ‘

Interview by Tema (subscribe)    –   (courtesy weekend notes)
A Club Adelaide Fringe : Event: 15/02/2019 – 24/02/2019

Don’t be fooled by the name of this Fringe show, because Steve Chang‘s show A Complete Waste of Time will take its audience on an “introspective journey”, where they can explore the meaning of life. Using the art of stand-up comedy and storytelling, audience members are encouraged to walk into the show with a (very) open mind, as they experience little snippets of Chang’s life and be entertained for 55 minutes, which will be equal parts hilarious and intriguing.

Read the Full Steve Chang interview with Tema read here

Book your tickets to his show here and follow Chang on his social media platforms: Facebook // Instagram // Twitter.

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Michael Wheatley’s new PRINCE Tribute comes to The A-Club Adelaide’s 2019 FRINGE

Read All about the Adelaide premiere of Michael Wheatley’s new PRINCE tribute shows as told to KenGrady.

“You can tell listening to Wheatley talk about his show, that it will be as much a cathartic process for him as it will be an entertaining and emotional experience for his audience.” says Ken Grady

‘I’m actually very proud of it. And now that I have actually performed it, it’s become real for me. I’ve worked really hard on it for the last year.’  said Michael wheatley

THE FINE LINE BETWEEN IMITATION AND INSPIRATION – MICHAEL WHEATLEY’S NEW PRINCE TRIBUTE COMES TO THE ADELAIDE FRINGE
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Johnny en Rose – Interview, Adelaide Fringe 2019

Interview by Tema (subscribe)     –   (courtesy weekend notes)
A Club Adelaide Fringe Event : 15/02/2019 – 16/02/2019

Johnny En Rose, Adelaide Fringe 2019

Meet NYC writer and performer John Koladziej, who is coming to Fringe, after performing sold out shows in New York and Los Angeles, it’s time for Adelaide to join John , as he takes us on a Parisian journey around Edith Piaf’s time.

In anticipation of his arrival in Adelaide and his 2 night fringe performances, Tema interviews Koladziej, where they discuss the show in great detail – read the Full Interview with Tema here 

With a unique component of his cabaret show Johnny en Rose: Songs of the Little Sparrow is being performed in English and French, Koladziej’s show revolves around a “young boy’s coming-of-age through the chansons of the famed chanteuse”.

 John Gabriel Koladziej is a writer/performer based in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. Originally from the Los Angeles area, he first came to New York to study theatre at the Stella Adler Conservatory at NYU.   “I returned to LA, shortly after 9/11, and found myself doing a lot of theatre there.  However, I’ve been back in New York for a while now, having landed a job at a Manhattan ad agency, and have really been enjoying the cabaret world in the past few years. ” johnny said.

Adelaide-based accordionist Paula Mazzocco,  joins on stage for this next installation of “Johnny en Rose: Songs of the Little Sparrow.” 

Don’t go past this and other amazing shows at the A club Adelaide Fringe

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Adelaide Fringe Interviews – The Talents of Darkness

If you missed The Talents of Darkness in their exclusive preview show at The A Club Adelaide last month then you had better be getting your skates on and get tickets for there Fringe season NOW!

Read this great interview piece from the lovely Fatema Sitabkhan, with images supplied from Anthony Rex

Adelaide Fringe is so close i can almost feel it !!

Read the full article here –> Talents of darkness – on Adelaide Fringe at the A club