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June 30, 2009

Modern take on a timeless tale sure to bring the house down

The Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
June 30. Tickets: $29. Group of 6 – $24.
Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 11.
Sydney Theatre Company season
October 23- November 1.

It is 70 years since, in the legendary MGM movie, Judy Garland’s Dorothy was mysteriously transported from her monochrome mid-western farm to the technicolor Land of Oz. Now, Windmill theatre director, Rosemary Myers, has given the L.Frank Baum classic a new spin with …

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June 20, 2009

Adelaide Cabaret Festival

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Generation Why
Hayden Tee
Dunstan Playhouse
June 10.
Magpie Blues
Ursula Yovich
The Space
June 17.
Adelaide Festival Centre.
Bookings BASS 131 246. Cabaret Festival until June 20.

It perhaps comes as no surprise that a show called Generation Why ? raises more questions than it answers. Now in his late 20s, talented singer Hayden Tee is contemplating his Saturn Return, that point in the astrological cycle when thresholds are crossed and life choices are consolidated. For Mr Tee everything …

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June 08, 2009

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2009

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Variety Gala
June 5.
Bernadette Peters
June 6
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Bookings BASS 131 246. Cabaret Festival until June 20.

This year sees the Adelaide Cabaret Festival putting on the Ritz. In his gold lame jacket Artistic Director, David Campbell is looking anything but shy as he and his co-producer wife, Lisa Campbell step out on the Adelaide Festival Centre’s opening night red carpet. Now it’s time to see whether his program is going to cut a rug …

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June 01, 2009

Phases and Stages

Murray Bramwell surveys theatre during The Adelaide Review’s quarter century.

With the Adelaide Review celebrating 25 years publication earlier this year it is a good time, in the immortal words of Dame Edna Everage, to look back retrospectively. In 1984 the two strands of theatre in Adelaide – amateur and professional – were , and still are , recognisably evident . The Adelaide Rep was the stalwart it remains, as were the Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Therry,
Matt Byrne Productions, …

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Phases and Stages

Filed under: Archive,Theatre

Murray Bramwell surveys theatre during The Adelaide Review’s quarter century.

With the Adelaide Review celebrating 25 years publication earlier this year it is a good time, in the immortal words of Dame Edna Everage, to look back retrospectively. In 1984 the two strands of theatre in Adelaide – amateur and professional – were , and still are , recognisably evident . The Adelaide Rep was the stalwart it remains, as were the Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Therry,
Matt Byrne Productions, …

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May 18, 2009

Adelaide Come Out 2009

Adelaide
Come Out 2009
Theatre

The Dumb Waiter
by Harold Pinter
State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre. May 20.
The 2-Dimensional Life of Her
Devised by Fleur Elise Noble
Queen’s Theatre. May 18.

For the last two weeks an estimated 120,000 young people from across South Australia have been participating in Come Out, the Australian Festival for Young People, which, for 34 years now, has been presenting a biennial array of events and activities in …

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May 02, 2009

Brothers and other strangers

True West
by Sam Shepard
Flying Penguin Productions
The Studio, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh, Adelaide.
May 2 . Tickets $18 – $28.
Bookings BASS 131 246 or Venuetix 8255 8888
Until May 16.

Increasingly, it seems, professional theatre in Adelaide is looking to the efforts of dedicated individuals. With only the flagship State Theatre Company and a small and under-resourced scattering of second-tier outfits, the city has always depended on the kindness of free-lances. Significant among them has been David …

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May 01, 2009

Dark Nights and Clear Dawns

Three Dog Night
by Peter Goldsworthy
Adapted by Petra Kalive
Two Blue Cherries
Space Theatre

31 March

Metro Street
by Matthew Robinson
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse

April 7

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

We have seen Peter Goldsworthy’s work on stage in brisk succession recently. First, with his own adaptation of Maestro (in collaboration with Anna Goldsworthy) and now with Melbourne company, Two Blue Cherries’ version of Three Dog Night. As the more than quarter of a million readers …

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April 07, 2009

Impeccable cast, staging and music hit all the right notes

Metro Street
Book, music and lyrics by Matthew Robinson
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Arts Asia Pacific and Power Arts.
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 7 . Tickets $45 – $65. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until April 25.

Musicals can be about many things – Abba songs on an island, cats, 19th century France, three drag queens on a bus, or wicked witches from the west. But there is also, apparently, an iron rule that says that …

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March 20, 2009

Box office feed off familiarity

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

Adelaide Fringe 2009
February 27 to March 22
Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)

The Adelaide Fringe can surely claim it has something for everyone. Like its Scottish sibling in Edinburgh, and on almost the same scale, uncurated and unexpurgated the Fringe opens its wide arms to all and any. Its sheer size is extraordinary. This year saw more than 500 events listed at an incredible 259 venues. It seems like every nook, cranny, car park, derelict …

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