2007
March 15

Adelaide
Theatre
Adelaide Fringe 07

Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson
Tickets $20 -25.

What I Heard About Iraq
By Simon Levy
Holden Street Theatres’ Directors’ Choice 07

Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh
Tickets $17 -23.
Until March 31

Tom Crean –Antarctic Explorer
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Bakehouse Theatre until March 23
Tickets$20 – $22.

Rubeville
The Black Lung Theatre
until March 24
Kissy Kissy
The Black Lung Theatre
145 Hindley Street…

2006
Murray Bramwell

Whenever the Fringe is talked about – big statistics are sure to follow. In 2006 there are 4000 artists, 1400 technicians, 500 acts and 6000 performances. That is a lot of action – and in the Darwinian struggle for audiences some already will have come to grief at the box office.

In theatre, where more than a hundred items are listed, Adelaide is seeing a quantum increase in activity and, already, a great deal that is engaging …

2006
Murray Bramwell

In the profusion of the Fringe program has been a music program variously including Dave Graney, Shooglenifty, Monique Brumby and others, but the standout has to be Richard Thompson at the Norwood Concert Hall. From his days in Fairport Convention and through his distinguished solo career, Thompson has long been the guitarists’ guitarist and the composers’ composer. His show is a mix of songs ancient and modern – the plaintive Crazy Man Michael, the high revving 1952 …

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The Bogus Woman
By Kay Adshead
Leicester Haymarket Theatre
February 26. Tickets $8 – $20
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 10

4.48 Psychosis
By Sarah Kane
Brink Productions
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26, Tickets $18 – $24
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 12

Absence and Presence
Devised by Andrew Dawson
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26. Tickets $18.50 – $26.50
Fringe Tix 8418 8666. Until March 4

Pluck
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
February 26. Tickets $16 – $20.…

Murray Bramwell previews the 2006 Adelaide Fringe program.

It is hard to know just which part of the word “fringe’ still applies to the now enormous Adelaide Fringe. The name comes from the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe, which Adelaide so closely rivals and resembles and the idea is that the Fringe showcases the more radical, marginal and, shall we say, edgy artists and performances.

That is still a bit true, but also significantly not. The Adelaide Festival has never been …

2004
Murray Bramwell

The Return
Theatre Company Nottle
Eclipse, FringeHUB,level four, Adelaide University.
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 20 – $ 25.
Until 13 March.

Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down
Aquarius Productions
Cinema, FringeHUB, Adelaide University.
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 15 -18.
Until 14 March.

X Ray
by Chris Tugwell
Directed by Geoff Crowhurst.
Mongrel Productions
AIT Arts (Acting Studio) 39 Light Square
Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004. Tickets $ 15 – $ 23.…

2004
Murray Bramwell

The Fringe theatre program is strong this year and deserves support. Now is the time to have a binge – we won’t have anything like as many chances once the Fringe and Festival tide recedes and we are back in dark old Adelaide again. We can regret that the program is a crowded one and that no-one realistically can see more than a fraction of the ninety-something theatre productions listed, but with a range of international shows …

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Horse Country
by C.J. Hopkins
Clancy Productions
Eclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
Until 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
Tickets $15 – $29.
Sydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
9 – 28 March.

Cincinnati
by Don Nigro
Clancy Productions
Eclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
Until 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
Tickets $15 – $29.
Sydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
9-28 March

Morph
by Brendan Cowell
Fresh Track Productions
Little Theatre, FringeHUB, Adelaide …

2004
Murray Bramwell

The official Fringe program is out and, once again, it is a humungous collection of human activity and human endeavour. Take the Theatre section, for instance. I counted ninety seven listings. That means at least ten times that many people have got themselves organised, forked out their own money and are putting on a show – for themselves, their friends, families, to impress their lovers and punish their ex-s, and to entertain the passing punters, like us, …

2004
Fringe Comedy

Murray Bramwell

Before television re-discovered Australian humour and FM breakfast executives began strip-mining the stand-up industry, comedy at the Adelaide Fringe was all one big lucky dip where Funny Stories, LosTrios Ringbarkus, the Doug Anthony Allstars, Flacco, the Jet Black Cowboy and the Castanet Club could all be found.
Now we know our comics through Rove and ABC vehicles like The Glass House so many comedians already have a profile and a pedigree.

Looking through the list …