Life X 3
by Yasmina Reza
State Theatre Company
of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse.
Until 2 September, 2006
Murray Bramwell
When the Finidoris – Hubert and Ines – knock at the door of Henri’s apartment his wife Sonia describes it as a catastrophe. They have either arrived a day too soon for their dinner invitation, or Henri has got the date wrong. In any case, it is a cock-up. There’s no food in the house except chocolate fingers and crispy …
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Murray Bramwell
Life X 3
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 15, 2006. Tickets $ 15 – 50. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until September 2.
When dinner guests arrive 24 hours sooner than expected, it is described by the hostess as a catastrophe. Of course, that is an excessive use of the word, or is
it ? In her comedy of micro-manners, Life …
August 10, 2006
Murray Bramwell
Tough Girls
Written by Melissa Reeves
Composed by Irine Vela
Vitalstatistix and Deckchair Theatre
Waterside, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide
August 9. Tickets $ 15 – 25. Bookings : 8447 6211
Until August 19.
WA Season Deckchair Theatre,
Victoria Hall, Fremantle
August 23 to September 2.
Tough Girls, the new chamber musical from Adelaide’s Vitalstatistix (in co-production with WA’s Deckchair Theatre) asks some interesting questions about the criminal underworld. Such as, when the blokes are …
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Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett
State Theatre Company
Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
22 July, 2006.
Murray Bramwell
For a play about not getting anywhere, Waiting for Godot has gone a very long way. Written in Paris in 1949, last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance to somewhat puzzled audiences in London – two years after it had already perplexed the French. But if its metaphor of apparently futile waiting is ambiguous and riddling, the context …
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Murray Bramwell
Unspoken
Written and performed by Rebecca Clark
Vitalstatistix and Performing Lines
Waterside, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide
July 5. Tickets $ 15 – 20. Bookings : 8447 6211
Until July 8.
Tower Theatre CUB Malthouse, Melbourne July 11-22
The Loft, QUT (Brisbane Festival) July 26 –August 5
(Bookings: QUT Gardens Theatre – (07) 3864 4455. Tickets: $18 -28.
Mackay Entertainment Centre, Mackay. Aug 8 -9
Riverway Arts Centre, Thuringowa August 11-12
Gladstone Playhouse, Entertainment Centre, …
July 2, 2006
Murray Bramwell
Two Weeks with the Queen
Adapted by Mary Morris
from the novel by Morris Gleitzman.
Windmill Performing Arts
In association with State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 1. Tickets $ 19 – 27. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 15.
Riverside Theatre, Sydney
July 19 – 22.
For their school holiday season Windmill Productions have revived a favourite from the recent past. Two Weeks with the Queen – Mary …
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Murray Bramwell talks with director, Michael Hill, in week three of rehearsals, about State Theatre’s up-coming production of Waiting For Godot
Waiting For Godot is probably the most famous play of the 20th century . Written over six weeks in 1949, it made a legend of its author, Samuel Beckett, when first performed in Paris in 1953 and its reputation spread when it opened in London and New York two years later. Described by Martin Esslin as a leading …
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Murray Bramwell talks with director, Michael Hill, in week three of rehearsals, about State Theatre’s up-coming production of Waiting For Godot
Waiting For Godot is probably the most famous play of the 20th century . Written over six weeks in 1949, it made a legend of its author, Samuel Beckett, when first performed in Paris in 1953 and its reputation spread when it opened in London and New York two years later. Described by Martin Esslin as a leading …
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