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August 04, 1989

Streetwise

1989

Road

by Jim Cartwright

Red Shed Company

Adelaide

With their latest production, Road, the Red Shed Company further consolidate their claim as Adelaide’s pre-eminent alternative theatre group. In little more than three years they have produced a creditable range of works – some devised by company members, others, like their current production, intelligent choices from the progressive repertoire.

First performed at the Royal Court in London in 1986, Jim Cartwright’s Road played widely in the provinces and has now …

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August 01, 1989

Professional Foul

Top Silk
by David Williamson
Playhouse ·

According to David Williamson, barristers are better value than the Tooth Fairy. There’s nothing that their silky talents can’t achieve. If you are a media tycoon these scriveners can get around the anti~ Trust laws, they can also help out when you get caught with more than a recreational amount of an illegal substance. Then, when they’ve done that, they’ll be your next Premier. That is, if they can be bothered.

In recent …

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July 22, 1989

Heading for Hong Kong

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

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Heading for Hong Kong

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

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July 01, 1989

Pound Devalued

Filed under: Archive,Books

A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
by Humphrey Carpenter,
Faber and Faber, 1989.

Ezra Pound has often stood as the quintessence of Modernism. Originating from Hailey, Idaho, in the American West, he presented himself as a cross between Dante and Uncle Remus, James McNeill Whistler and P. T. Barnum. Later, when the masks changed, or slipped altogether, the associations became sinister and unsavoury as his anti-Semitism ran riot and when, during World War II, he openly supported the …

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June 17, 1989

State Opera Changes its Tune

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Bill Gillespie, General  Manager of the State Opera of South Australia, about his plans for getting the company back to strength.

While it may be appealing for the leading characters to have true hearts and empty pockets, the same is not true for Opera companies. Little more than a year ago the State Opera of South Australia was in the cactus. The deficit was  more than $500,000, the  subscriber base could only be called precarious …

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June 01, 1989

Weather Report

The Tempest
William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company
Playhouse

During his stint as Artistic Director for the State Theatre Company, John Gaden has been closely associated with four Shakespearean productions – Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter’s Tale which he co-directed with Gale Edwards, as the lead in King Lear directed by Edwards, and now, The Tempest in which he directs but does not perform.

With little more than six months left with State, Gaden might have been tempted to …

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Risible

Filed under: Archive,Books,Comedy

A Complete Dagg
John Clarke
Susan Haynes/ Allen and Unwin
RRP $14.95

A series of interviews has begun appearing on Nine’s A Current Affair in the last five minutes of their Friday edition. Paul Keating, Andrew Peacock, Margaret Thatcher and Dan Quayle all appear on TV frequently but never before has anyone noticed their uncanny resemblance to John Clarke. They look and talk like him, they even share his profound belief in the reductio ad absurdum, but, at the same …

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Fiscal Violence

Speed-The-Plow
by David Mamet
State Theatre Company
Space

David Mamet wrote his first plays when he was teaching acting. Tired of trying to find new exercises for students, he began making up his own. An essential part of building a character as Stanislavski will tell you, is ‘ determining what he or she wants from others in the play ‘ and David Mamet constructs intricate, subtle and disturbing theatre around these questions.

Mamet has written more than twenty plays as …

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Whose Beach is it Anyway?

Whose Beach is it Anyway?
by Greg McCart
Kite Theatre Company, Queensland
Directed by Sue Rider
Design: Paul Edwards, Composer: Barry Ferrier
Cast: Tim Mullooly, Susi French, Lil Kelman, Elaine Cusick

For their contribution to Come Out 89, the Kite Theatre Company flew in from Brisbane to present a show for littlies entitled Whose Beach is it Anyway? Karah, a young suburban kid, comes across a hidden beach inhabited only by seagulls, a turtle, a crab and a brown booby …

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