August 4, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

Fugitive
by Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 3. Tickets $ 20 – 29. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 14.

In Fugitive, a lively, retro-futuristic version of the Robin Hood legend by Matthew Whittet, the man in tight jeans is spurred to rebellion by the death of a child. With assistance from an unidentified blaster device in his backpack, he and his Merry Crew seek righteous revenge. But, …

July 6, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

Entertaining Mr Sloane
by Joe Orton
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
July 6. Tickets $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until July 25.

When the famous playwright Terence Rattigan saw Entertaining Mr Sloane in its first season in London in May, 1964, he described it as the best first play he had seen in “thirty odd years”.  The prodigious fluency of Joe Orton’s grim three act …

May 22, 2010

The Seven Stages of Grieving
by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman
State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
May 22. . Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 29.  SA regional tour until June 17.

The Share
by Daniel Keene
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The Bakehouse, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
May 20. Tickets $ 20 – 25. Bookings : ph 8227 0505
Until June 5.

In the State Theatre Company revival …

May 2010

Adelaide Theatre

Carmel Johnson talks with Murray Bramwell about her part in State Theatre Company’s current production of Arthur Miller’s The Price.

It has been a busy time for Carmel Johnson. One of Adelaide’s most respected and versatile actresses, she has been on a two year roller-coaster with Brink Productions’ staging of Andrew Bovell’s hit play When the Rain Stops Falling. Opening at the 2008 Adelaide Festival the production has had seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra …

April 29, 2010
Adelaide Theatre

The Price
By Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
April 28. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 16.

Murray Bramwell

In an interview, for BBC television in 1987, Arthur Miller said that his plays were about the birds coming home to roost. They might think they are flying around free, he explained, but, sooner or later, one by one they would land …