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March 03, 2016

All Delighted Audience

Filed under: 2016,Archive,Festival,Music

Sufjan Stevens
Thebarton Theatre
Adelaide Festival
February 29, 2016

Murray Bramwell

Last time we saw Sufjan Stevens it was his 2011 Age of Adz tour. Inspired by the paintings of the schizophrenic visionary Royal Robertson, the concert featured massive back projections of Robertson’s ecstatic, vibrantly coloured imaginings while Stevens and a ten piece band produced a symphonic event, festooned with samples, loops and intrepid orchestrations.

For his 2016 tour Sufjan Stevens is in lyric mode. With just four band members …

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February 28, 2016

King James Versions

Filed under: 2016,Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

Adelaide Festival

The James Plays
by Rona Munro
National Theatre of Scotland,
National Theatre of Great Britain,
Edinburgh International Festival.
February 27. Duration 7 hours 40 minutes including intervals.

“We cannot know the character and thoughts of these dead kings and queens and long-gone Scots,” Rona Munro remarks of the succession of royals and underlings who populate her dazzling epic trilogy, The James Plays, “(But) we can speculate a whole series of possibilities from the few hard facts we …

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May 31, 2015

Puppeteers delight youngsters with the whole world in their hands

Filed under: 2015,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Festival,Theatre

Adelaide
Come Out Children’s Festival
May 22 – 30.

Argus
Dead Puppet Society
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
May 23.

A Kid Like Me
Presented by True North Youth Theatre Ensemble
The Parks Theatre, Angle Park
May 20.

History of Autism
by Julian Jaensch
Company@ Autistic Theatre
The Opera Studio, Netley
May 30.

The biennial Come Out Children’s Festival has been an Adelaide fixture since 1974 and it gathers in tens of thousands of children, from littlies to high school …

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March 16, 2015

Adelaide Festival 2015

Filed under: 2015,Archive,Festival

Daily Review
March 16
Adelaide Festival 2015

Adelaide Festival(s)

Murray Bramwell

It is only 16 days into the month and already Adelaide’s “Mad March” is over. Admittedly, the Fringe began on February 13, but the intensity and simultaneity of the various major events – Fringe, Clipsal 500, Adelaide Cup and, of course, the original March event, the Adelaide Festival – in just a fortnight, is both exhilarating and, perhaps, problematic.

Just as it has in Edinburgh, home to the first …

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March 12, 2015

Marriages made in burlesque

Filed under: 2015,Archive,Festival

Adelaide Festival
Theatre

Beauty and the Beast
One of Us/Improbable
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 10. Tickets: $ 30 – $ 59
Bookings: adelaidefestival.com.au, BASS 131 246.
Duration : 1 hr 15 mins. R 18+.
Until March 15.

The Cardinals
Devised by Alia Alzougbi, Gerard Bell, Graeme Rose, Craig Stephens
Stan’s Cafe.
Flinders Street Baptist Church, 65 Flinders Street
March 11. Tickets: $ 30 – $ 49
Bookings: adelaidefestival.com.au, BASS 131 246.
Duration : 1 hr 40 mins.
Until …

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March 09, 2015

Adelaide Festival 2015

Filed under: 2015,Archive,Festival,Music

Daily Review
Murray Bramwell

Roses and Bryars

Gavin Bryars Ensemble
March 3. Elder Hall

Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
and selected orchestral works
March 5. Adelaide Town Hall

One of the highlights of this year’s Adelaide Festival has been composer-in- residence Gavin Bryars. Yorkshire-born, Bryars has been prominent in minimalist music since the late 1960s, with works such as The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet in 1972. Both were first released on …

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March 05, 2015

War and Cyber-love

Filed under: 2015,Archive,Festival

Nufonia Must Fall
by Kid Koala
Directed and designed by K.K.Barrett
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 4.
Tickets: $ 30 – $ 59
Bookings : adelaidefestival.com.au
BASS 131246. Until March 7. Duration 1 hr.

SmallWaR
Written and performed by Valentijn Dhaenens
Produced and presented by SKaGeN
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. March 4.

Not many performances begin with a bingo call, but Canadian Eric San, aka Kid Koala, really likes to mix things around. Not only is he an …

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February 24, 2015

Memories are hit and miss

Filed under: 2015,Archive,Festival,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Festival

Memories are hit and miss

Beckett Triptych:
Footfalls, Eh Joe and Krapp’s Last Tape
by Samuel Beckett
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Scenic Workshop and Rehearsal Room
Adelaide Festival Centre.
February 24. Tickets: $ 31 – $ 69
Bookings : adelaidefestival.com.au
BASS 131246.
Until March 15.

Jean Paul Sartre said that hell is other people, but for Samuel Beckett it is much closer to home. “You know that penny farthing hell you call your mind”, says the …

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March 12, 2014

O dream of joy this departure is indeed a spellbinding voyage through sight and sound

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

Adelaide Festival
Music Theatre

O dream of joy this departure is indeed, a spellbinding voyage through sight and sound

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Tiger Lillies.
Her Majesty’s Theatre , 58 Grote Street.
Duration 1 hours 30 minutes
March 12. Tickets $ 30 – $ 79
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 14.

One of the great narrative poems in English literature, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written in 1797 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, …

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March 06, 2014

Adelaide Festival 2014

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Theatre

The Daily Review

Adelaide Festival : Theatre, Local and Large

Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Festival has been open for a week and already the theatre program has been terrific. First up was the State Theatre Company’s fine production, directed by Geordie Brookman, of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Hilary Bell’s brisk, unfussy adaptation set the tone for a lively, accessible version of this masterwork. Staged in the company’s scenic workshop, lit and designed by the always inventive Geoff Cobham, Brookman …

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