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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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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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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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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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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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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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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by Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Nicki Bloom
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
October 13
Of all of Ibsen’s plays Ghosts is the most startling and most intriguing. Written after A Doll’s House, it drew acrimony even from his admirers, sales of its first print run were disastrous, and theatre producers across Europe were fearful to stage it At the same time , young actors organised secret readings, attracting intense and defiant audiences eager to read a play prepared …
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Adelaide
OzAsia Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 2-17.
Rhinoceros in Love
by Yimei Liao
National Theatre of China
Her Majesty’s
September 15.
Brisbane Festival
Powerhouse September 21-24.
Melbourne Festival, The Arts Centre Playhouse
October 6-9.
The OzAsia festival this year has had a special emphasis on bright young Asian culture with music popster Shugo Tokumaru, ska band Cool Wise Man, Japanese female DJ Likkle Mai, and mime performers CAVA. Also, in theatre, it has showcased Rhinoceros in …
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Adelaide
Theatre
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13 . Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 2.
When we enter the ruined farmhouse of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer prize winning play Buried Child we go through a familiar portal in American writing. This mix of realism and the grotesque, of Greek tragedy and grim comedy, is the territory of Eugene …
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