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Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Curiously and successfully blending narration with performance, Gatz brings an American classic into fresh perspective.

Murray Bramwell

As is often the case, the final weekend of the Adelaide Festival delivers up unexpected highlights – and Gatz is certainly one. We have been uplifted before by the Brooklyn-based Elevator Repair Company when they presented William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury in 2010.

Taking the novel’s first section, narrated by the mentally disabled mute, Benjy, …

Adelaide Festival – Theatre

Isabelle Huppert is superb as Mary Queen of Scots in an unorthodox monologue that explores the woman who would be queen. And Adelaide finally has a chance to see the theatrical vision of Robert Wilson.

Murray Bramwell

Much is known about the last 24 hours in the life of Mary Queen of Scots before her execution at 8am on February 8, 1587. Her night prayers with household servants, were documented, as were her farewell letters (including …

William Yang returns to OzAsia with his latest monologue-with-pictures. It is called Milestone and it is a reminder of how many of them he has had.

Murray Bramwell

Occasioned by his 80^th birthday in 2023, Milestone is William Yang’s most complete retrospective to date. First presented at this year’s Sydney Festival and, after Adelaide, immediately headed for a major arts festival in Seoul, this work is Yang’s most extensive, inclusive, and, perhaps, most personal. It is the William Omnibus …

Adelaide Festival Theatre

Coriolanus, King John, Much Ado About Nothing

This complete rendering of Shakespeare, without actors and speeches, but instead storytellers with a cast of performers from the kitchen cupboard, not only intrigues us but shows us how an audience works.

Written by Murray Bramwell

Led by Tim Etchells, for 41 years the wryly-named Forced Entertainment company from Sheffield UK have made it their business to question and re-frame the business of theatre. Where other companies strive to replicate …