A German Life

Once upon a time there was the matriarch of festival season, the Adelaide Festival. Now dwarfed in numbers and attendance and running time, Adelaide Fringe is much larger and diverse. 

This evening we attend our first Adelaide Festival performance. A German Story is being performed by one of Australia's most accomplished actresses at the Dunstan Playhouse which is a part of the Adelaide Festival Centre, think our equivalent of the Sydney Opera House complex.

It is a one act, one scene, one person play. It tells the story of a 106 YO recently deceased German woman who worked as a personal assistant to Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda during WWII.

It is a very good performance if not as compelling and moving as we expected.

Dusk has come to our fair city as we depart the theater. Rowers continue to ply the river at this hour. For whatever reason, the Torrens River always brings the feeling of tranquility to CJ.