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June 19, 2012

War Mother

May 31, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

War Mother
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Theatre
May 30. Tickets $ 18 – $ 30
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until June 2.
Metro/Regional tour June 4 – 22.

Interweaving scripts by Harold Pinter, Franca Rame and Dario Fo, and Dutch playwright Marjolijn van Heemstra, State Theatre’s War Mother describes the pity and terror of war from maternal perspectives – whether as the mother of a militant son, or a woman vainly …

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May 15, 2012

Lost in sea of troubles

May 14, 2012

Adelaide
Theatre

Land & Sea
by Nicki Bloom
Brink Productions
Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide
May 12. Tickets $ 25 – $ 45
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 26.

Land&Sea”, Nicki Bloom explains in her program notes, “exists in the in-between space. In between consciousness and unconsciousness, knowing and not knowing”. Which is where, it might be added, all music and most poetry comes from. Brink Productions newest work, directed by Chris Drummond and performed …

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May 09, 2012

The Glass Menagerie

May 9, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
State Theatre Company
The Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Theatre
May 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 26.

Tennessee Williams called it “the saddest play I have ever written” and, first performed in 1944, The Glass Menagerie is certainly his most autobiographical. “The play is memory”, the narrator, Tom, informs us in the startlingly direct opening address – “Being a memory play, it …

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April 21, 2012

The City

April 14 , 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

The City
by Martin Crimp
nowyesnow
The Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide
April 13. Tickets $ 17 – $ 25
Bookings : 8277 0505,  www.bakehousetheatre.com
Until April 28.

“Why is it“, asks one of the characters in Martin Crimp’s 2008 play The City, “that our hopes make us so sad ?” It is one of the very few direct comments anyone makes in this captivating, eighty minute maze of disconnected details, emotions, lacunae and cul-de-sacs.…

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March 13, 2012

School Dance

School Dance
By Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
in association with Adelaide Festival
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre .
March 6. Tickets : $ 20 – $30
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 10.

The school dance is a big deal – and an ordeal – if you are not numbered among the anointed popular. Windmill’s captivating new work not only explores the status anxiety of teenagers, it takes them through a hole in the fabric of time to make …

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March 06, 2012

The Ham Funeral

March 1 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Ham Funeral
by Patrick White
State Theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Queen Street
February 27. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or Adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 18

For his 2012 Festival production, State Theatre’s departing artistic director, Adam Cook has shown an astute sense of occasion. Not only is this year the centenary of Patrick White’s birth but it is just over fifty years since the programming of The …

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Malmo

February 29, 2012
Adelaide Festival

Malmo
Torque Show
Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
in association with Adelaide Festival
Waterside, Port Adelaide.
February 28. Tickets : $ 25 – $35
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 4.

“This is not a house, it’s a machine for living” the bright young couple exults, “It is a 3D mirror of who you are.” Malmo, a dance theatre work devised by performers Vincent Crowley and Ingrid Weisfelt, along with director Ross Ganf, takes …

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November 21, 2011

The Dead Ones

November 21 , 2011
Feast Festival
Adelaide
Theatre

The Dead Ones
by Margie Fischer
Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
Higher Ground, Light Square, Adelaide.
November 20 . Tickets $15- $20
Bookings : Ph.08 84630684
Until November 26.

What are memories when there is no one left to share them ? What are the traces of a family when there is no-one to identify the people in the photograph or recognize a favourite book or chair ? In The Dead Ones , theatre …

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November 06, 2011

Holding the Man

October 25, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Holding the Man
by Tommy Murphy
from the book by Timothy Conigrave
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 25 . Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 13.

As anyone who knows footy will tell you, holding the man is not just against the rules, but against Australian Rules. Timothy Conigrave’s 1995 memoir, Holding the Man, about his fifteen year gay relationship with his …

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October 20, 2011

That Face

September 23, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

That Face
By Polly Stenham
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
September 22. Wednesday to Saturday until October 8.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

UK playwright Polly Stenham was just nineteen when That Face premiered at London’s Royal Court in 2007 and it was a startling debut. Bright young Adelaide independents five.point.one have shown that its grim, sometimes macabrely comic take on middle class neglect …

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