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March 16, 2013

Holocaust horrors amplified

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

March 13 , 2013
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Kamp
Created by Herman Helle, Pauline Kalker and
Arlene Hoornweg .
Hotel Modern
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 12. Tickets $ 30 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 17.

It is part of the tragedy of modern times that we can know about catastrophic events but still not fathom them. We are told the statistics from the two World Wars, for instance, soldier and civilian fatalities …

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March 10, 2013

Parks and Re-creation

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Festival,Music

Van Dyke Parks
with Daniel Johns, Kimbra
and the Adelaide Art Orchestra
Thebarton Theatre
March 8.

Murray Bramwell

Artistic director, David Sefton had always planned to include Van Dyke Parks in his first Adelaide Festival and among the hit-and-miss, mix-and-almost match fare of this week’s Brassland events, this Thebarton show has been a highlight. Much has to do with the genial, outgoing presence of Parks himself. But equally, the enthusiastic participation by Daniel Johns and electro-pop favourite, Kimbra turned an …

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March 05, 2013

Star’s stand-in acquits himself well in murderer’s tale

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Festival,State Theatre Company,Theatre

March 4 , 2013
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Kreutzer Sonata
Based on the Novella by Leo Tolstoy
Adaptation by Sue Smith
State Theatre Company.
The State Theatre Company Scenic Workshop,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 2. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 17.

The first night of a new play is always a high pressure event. The first night of a featured work in an arts festival, even more so. When it …

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When London was hit by bombs

Filed under: 2013,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Festival,Theatre

March 3 , 2013
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Thursday
by Bryony Lavery
Brink Productions
and the English Touring Theatre
Norwood Town Hall, The Parade, Norwood
February 28. Tickets $ 30 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 16.

“This is a play, not a documentary,” Bryony Lavery writes in the program notes for Thursday, “ It is a theatrical response and offering to an enormous human event.” The event was on Thursday,  July 7, 2005 …

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Delightful farce delivers a dose of Britain in ‘63

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

March 3 , 2013
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

One Man, Two Guvnors
by Richard Bean
Based on The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
with songs by Grant Olding
National Theatre of Great Britain
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide
March 1. Tickets $ 30 – $ 109
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 9.

Sydney Theatre Company season
March 30 –May 11.
Melbourne Theatre Company season
May 17- June 22.

From the moment The Craze, a young skiffle …

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March 16, 2012

A Streetcar

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 14 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

A Streetcar
Based on A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Odeon – Theatre de l’Europe
Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
March 14. Tickets $ 30 – $ 129
Bookings : BASS 131 246/ adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 18.

First performed in 1947, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a 20th century classic, and one destined to endure because, in director Elia Kazan’s 1951 film version, we have a permanent record of many …

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March 13, 2012

The Caretaker

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 10 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter
A Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production
in association with the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Festival Centre
and Theatre Royal Bath
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide
March 10. Tickets $ 30 – $ 119
Bookings : BASS 131 246/ adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 23.

Harold Pinter once said : “I can sum up none of my plays, I can describe none of them, except to say: That is what happened. That is …

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Hard to be a God

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Festival

March 8, 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Hard to be a God
Directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Old Clipsal Site, Bowden
March 8. Tickets $ 30 – $ 69
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or Adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 14

Hard to be a God, the much- awaited festival production by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo and his ensemble, takes its name from a 1964 sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the novel, a traveller from the future planet Earth, studies an …

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April 01, 2008

Festival of Light Fandangos

Filed under: Archive,Festival

2008
Murray Bramwell

With the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts over for another two years we have time to reflect on what was and, perhaps, what might have been. And despite Peter Sellars’ declaration, in 2002, that the era of the “big safari” festival, with its big game trophy events, is over – interest in the headliners has been as keen as ever. That is hardly surprising because, although Australians travel more than ever, the tyranny of distance is …

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March 13, 2008

Adelaide Festival 2008 Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Festival

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide. March 11.
Until 16 March.

Since one of the highlights of Brett Sheehy’s 2006 Adelaide Festival was Nora, the theatrically inventive re-framing of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Berlin’s Schaubuhne Theatre, the company’s scheduled return this year with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has created high expectations and a great opportunity for festival audiences not only to renew the connection with director …

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