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July 02, 2013

Double the fun with the Bard

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

Adelaide Theatre

The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 2. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until July 14.

Shakespeare’s comedies are full of tricks, dupes and misunderstandings. His characters frequently use disguise, subterfuge and illusion to create confusion. Appearances are altered to remedy injustice, take revenge and, often, to bring the misguided and the wrongheaded to their senses. But only his first …

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June 05, 2013

Matters of life, death …and slapstick

Filed under: 2013,Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide
Come Out Festival 2013
May 22 – 31.

Random
by debbie tucker green
State Theatre Company
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
May 29.

The Vistors
by Sean Riley
Urban Myth Theatre Company
The Goodwood Institute, Adelaide
May 31. Tickets : $ 18.50
Bookings: BASS 131 246 or bass.net.au
Until June 8.

The Moon is a Balloon
Devised and performed by Patch Theatre
Odeon Theatre, Norwood, Adelaide.
June 1.

Come Out, Adelaide’s leading festival for young people began in 1974 …

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May 01, 2013

Adelaide Theatre – Hedda Gabler

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

Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith
State Theatre Company.
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 30. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246
Until May 18.

“Men and women,“ Henrik Ibsen once observed, “don’t belong to the same century.” He was writing, in 1889, preliminary jottings for one of his best-known plays, Hedda Gabler – but, even 124 years later, the remark carries a rebuke. Ibsen had made the same point earlier, in his …

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April 24, 2013

A Night in Bohemia

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

Homage to Uncertainty
Emma Beech

The Giovanni Experiment
Hew Parham

La Boheme
April 20

The Adelaide Festival and Fringe programs have long been an embarrassment of riches. There are only so many places you can be at 8 pm on a Tuesday, or 7 pm on a Thursday and, with so many events scheduled, inevitably there are clashes and missed opportunities – especially when the enthusiastic buzz begins about particular shows and, alas, bookings and commitments have already been locked …

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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 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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February 27, 2013

New Sounds in the Park

Filed under: 2013,Archive,Theatre,Womadelaide

WOMADelaide 2013
Preview

Murray Bramwell

The line-up for this year’s WOMAD in Botanic Park has been announced and the anticipation begins. It is a big list – with three days and four nights to cover – and there is the usual mix of familiar names and those never-heard-of-till-now- performers who will doubtless join the 20 year list of artists who, once seen and heard, are never forgotten.  Names like Youssou N’Dour, Sheila Chandra, Toumani Diabate, Afro Celt Sound System, L. …

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November 07, 2012

Stimulating without the wink-wink factor

Filed under: 2012,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

November 7, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
by Sarah Ruhl
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

November 7. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 24.

In the opening scene of In the Next Room, Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated play from 2009, the intrepid medical scientist, Dr Givings,  makes his confident diagnosis : “Mr Daldry, your wife is suffering from hysteria. It is a very clear …

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