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 …

Murray Bramwell

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 …

2002
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Things were always going to go well for the Fringe this year. Everything, from the logo launch of that underdog-looking little bambi to the setting up of its ambitious on-line ticketing, had an assurance and energy about it. This not only came from director Katrina Sedgwick, CEO Jodie Glass and an army of workers and volunteers but was evident in the vibrant response from an Adelaide crowd looking for something more edifying, and certainly more …

2002

Shut Up and Love Me
Karen Finley
Union Hall, Adelaide University until 15 March.
Bookings FringeTIX 08 8201 4567. All tickets $36.
Brisbane and Sydney dates

Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Fringe has been going gangbusters. Already a week ago, more tickets had been sold than 2000 – an increase of forty percent – and, running seven days after the truncated Adelaide Festival, that margin is likely to increase.
Especially with imaginative local work such as Fresh Track’s production of …

2002
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The Fringe is in full swing for 2002. Even before the Friday night Opening Parade, which attracts a crowd upwards of fifty thousand, plenty of venues are well under way. At The Garden of Unearthly Delights in Rundle Park East, the Amazing Lunar Tent has already opened for circus biz while the Spiegeltent, which made its first appearance in Australia in Adelaide several Fringes ago, has again opened its elegant Edwardian doors for a full …

2002
APA presents

3 Dark Tales
A Theatre O production

Melbourne – Merlyn Theatre
February 11 to 20, 2002
Box Office 03 9685 5111

Adelaide Fringe Festival
Adelaide – Scott Theatre
February 22 to March 9, 2002

Bass 131 246 www.bass.sa.net.au
or FringeTIX www.adelaidefringe.com.au

The Company
Director Joseph Alford
Designer Isla Shaw
Choreographer Eva Vilamitjana
Lighting design Sarah Coxon

Stories by Joseph Alford, Jon Rand, Carolina Valdes
Lucien MacDougall and Sarah Coxon

“O,o interj. An exclamation expressing surprise, admiration, pain, …

Adelaide Fringe 2002
Previewed by Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Fringe is a remarkable event, for its size, its energy and, especially for the opportunity it offers artists to reach their audiences. That has not been happening with much vigour in Adelaide of late. There has been less activity in the performing arts in the past two years and the link with audiences has often been a tenuous one. For any number of good and terrible reasons, people seem to have …

Fringe Reflections

Murray Bramwell

Since its relocation in the Rundle Street precinct the Festival Fringe has, seemingly, had a charmed life. But I say seemingly, because sometimes in among the razzle dazzle it is hard to work out exactly what is actually going on. In identifying the success of the Fringe you wonder, in the words of the poet, how you might tell the dancer from the dance ? There is certainly a lot of action in town. The nights …