King Lear
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 5. Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until November 21.
It is as if Shakespeare’s King Lear is made of huge tectonic plates called power, loyalty and love and, when the king declares his darker purpose to divide the kingdom, they begin to grind against one another like the crack of doom. Lear is a huge, bleak, primeval play, set in …
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Weathering the Past and Reconciling the Future: Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling
2009
Weathering the Past and Reconciling the Future:
Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling
Murray Bramwell
It is not often we see a play that has its first scene set in 2039 and features a fish falling from the sky. But When the Rain Stops Falling is no ordinary play. Even its genesis was a slow and sometimes arduous one. This work, as Chris Drummond’s introductory note has indicated, had its origins some five years before its premiere at …
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