Reviews

Review by Stephen Dean The Adelaide Rep’s first offering for 2024 at their home of the Art’s Theatre is Baskerville -A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Written by Ken Ludwig, it is based on the story by [...]

Review by David Corkill Not knowing what to expect from this play, I was delighted to find that the unfolding of a mystery became the unfolding of a comedy. Starting with Sherlock Holmes’s [...]

Review by Brian Godfrey In the past month or so, Adelaide has had its share of Holmes-grown Sherlockery. During the Fringe we were treated to two one-person dramatic shows about the Great [...]

Review by Natasha Wood Sherlock Holmes has taken many faces over the past century. The Adelaide Repertory Theatre brings this parody of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale The Hound of the [...]

Review by Shelley Hampton If you are going to see Baskerville- A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, prepare yourself for something extraordinarily different! This clever spoof on Sir Arthur Conan [...]

Review by Barry Lenny With the Adelaide Festival and Fringe over and done with for another year, local companies are beginning their seasons, and the Adelaide Repertory Theatre Society is [...]

Review by Barry Lenny The Adelaide Repertory Theatre Society is presenting Bryony Lavery’s stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling novel, Treasure Island, the popular [...]

Review by Peter Bleby One of the most popular children’s stories ever adapts surprisingly well to the stage, and this large cast has a rollicking good time telling it. Most of the major points of [...]

Review by Mark Wickett Robert Louis Stephenson’s Treasure Island has long been many people’s source of all things pirate: ‘X marks the spot’, one-legged bad guys, and shoulder-sitting [...]

Review by Fran Edwards Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of pirates and treasure has been retold many times since the 1900’s. This version was adapted by Bryony Lavery for the National Theatre and [...]