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June 29, 2011

Your table’s waiting : laid-back legends put festival on a high

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Cabaret

June 25, 2011

Cabaret Festival 2011
Adelaide Festival Centre
until June 25.

Batt on a Hot Tin Roof
Bryan Batt
Festival Theatre Stage
June 24.
The Basement, Sydney
June 30. Bookings : ??

Jimmy Webb
Dunstan Playhouse
June 25.

Michael Feinstein
Festival Theatre
June 25.

After three weeks the 11th Adelaide Cabaret Festival has ended with plenty to sing about. And in their third , and final, year as directors, David and Lisa Campbell have increased interest, even on last …

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June 17, 2011

Molly’s Shoes

May 20, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

Molly’s Shoes
by Alex Vickery-Howe
Accidental Productions
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
May 19. Wednesday to Saturday until June 4.
Tickets: $16 – $23. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

Enterprising independents Accidental Productions have taken an impressive next step
with Molly’s Shoes, a lively new work from Adelaide playwright Alex Vickery-Howe.
Undergraduates David (Tim Smith) and Elspeth (Rachel Jones) are challenged by fearless
physics professor Molly Taffy (Katie O’Reilly). …

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The Zoo Story

May 29, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre
BRIEF

The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 27. Tickets  $ 18 – $30. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until June 4.    SA Regional tour June 7 -23.
School bookings : 08  8415 5333.

Edward Albee’s tension-filled one act, two-hander from 1958, The Zoo Story,  reminds us, if we needed it,  that primitive animal instinct extends to human beings as well. Peter, a well-to-do …

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May 06, 2011

The president as part turkey, part lame duck

May 6, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

November
By David Mamet
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 5. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 22.

Charles P. Smith is President of the United States. He is within days of losing re-election and he doesn’t know why. “”It’s because you’ve screwed the country into a cocked hat,” his adviser, Archie Brown, helpfully explains. “But at least I’ve done something !” is …

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May 05, 2011

Out and About

May 5, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

The Eisteddfod
by Lally Katz
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
April 30. Wednesday to Saturday until May 14.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

In The Eisteddfod, a strange sixty minute suburban fable by prolific Melbourne playwright, Lally Katz, the now grown-up siblings, Abalone and Gerture (Brad Williams and Kate Roxby) live in a Hansel and Gretel world of anxiety, regression and play acting. Family …

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March 31, 2011

Quick gallop through the Bard is full of laughs

March 31, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 30. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 16.

When Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, the original members of the RSC (Reduced Shakespeare Company) played their madcap cut-down version of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe in …

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Youth festival fuelled by fertile imaginations

Adelaide
Come Out Festival 2011
March 25 – April 1.

Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
by Jason De Santis
Tandanya, Adelaide
March 29.
Presented in association with the Darwin Festival
(August 11 -28) and Ten Days on the Island (April 1-3).

When the Pictures Came
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
and Children’s Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
March 28
Ten Days on the Island (April 1-3).

Escape from Peligro Island
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Windmill …

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March 12, 2011

City with the Fringe comes out on top

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Fringe

March 12, 2011
Adelaide
2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13

After more than three frenetic weeks of activity the Adelaide Fringe has come to a close, leaving the hundreds of artists and supporters to reflect on their fortunes, both creative and financial. With an uncurated smorgasbord of 759 events (405 of them Australian premieres) audiences have had a busy job finding the truffles. According to Fringe Director Greg Clarke, 2011 has even surpassed last year’s box office total …

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February 27, 2011

Satire driven by comic gusto

2011
February 24
Adelaide
Theatre

Moliere’s The Misanthrope
In a version by Martin Crimp
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
February 22. Tickets  $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until March 13.

We know that classics often improve with time, their insights and observations becoming more apt. But up-dated adaptations can often have a more butterfly-like lifespan. Happily, this is not so with UK playwright, Martin Crimp’s astute, deftly-rhymed translation of Moliere’s The

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Fringe-worthy fun that’s passing strange

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Fringe

2011
February 25
Adelaide

2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13
Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)

The 2011 Adelaide Fringe program is again bulging with events – not quite 200 in cabaret and  theatre, and more than 200 comedy acts  – some 750 in all.

The UK theatre invasion has begun winningly at Holden Street Theatres with Bound, Bear Trap Theatre’s saga of a North Sea fishing boat. Written by Jesse Briton, and performed …

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