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September 01, 2011

Timelessness of Chekhov’s exiles

August 9, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 9. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 28.

In Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the second last of the extraordinary quartet of plays he wrote between 1895 and the year of his death in 1904, the characters have often been described as exiles – in time, as well as place. Not only are …

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July 07, 2011

Speaking in Tongues

Adelaide
Theatre

Speaking in Tongues
by Andrew Bovell
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 6. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until July 24.

There is something spellbinding about Speaking in Tongues, Andrew Bovell’s intricately threaded mystery about love, marriage and the secret chambers of the heart. His title suggests the Pentecostal glossolalia of spiritual and emotional revelation but, when his characters reluctantly channel their deepest thoughts and feelings, they …

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June 17, 2011

Molly’s Shoes

May 20, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

Molly’s Shoes
by Alex Vickery-Howe
Accidental Productions
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
May 19. Wednesday to Saturday until June 4.
Tickets: $16 – $23. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

Enterprising independents Accidental Productions have taken an impressive next step
with Molly’s Shoes, a lively new work from Adelaide playwright Alex Vickery-Howe.
Undergraduates David (Tim Smith) and Elspeth (Rachel Jones) are challenged by fearless
physics professor Molly Taffy (Katie O’Reilly). …

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The Zoo Story

May 29, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre
BRIEF

The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 27. Tickets  $ 18 – $30. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until June 4.    SA Regional tour June 7 -23.
School bookings : 08  8415 5333.

Edward Albee’s tension-filled one act, two-hander from 1958, The Zoo Story,  reminds us, if we needed it,  that primitive animal instinct extends to human beings as well. Peter, a well-to-do …

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May 06, 2011

The president as part turkey, part lame duck

May 6, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

November
By David Mamet
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 5. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 22.

Charles P. Smith is President of the United States. He is within days of losing re-election and he doesn’t know why. “”It’s because you’ve screwed the country into a cocked hat,” his adviser, Archie Brown, helpfully explains. “But at least I’ve done something !” is …

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May 05, 2011

Out and About

May 5, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

The Eisteddfod
by Lally Katz
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
April 30. Wednesday to Saturday until May 14.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

In The Eisteddfod, a strange sixty minute suburban fable by prolific Melbourne playwright, Lally Katz, the now grown-up siblings, Abalone and Gerture (Brad Williams and Kate Roxby) live in a Hansel and Gretel world of anxiety, regression and play acting. Family …

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March 31, 2011

Quick gallop through the Bard is full of laughs

March 31, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 30. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 16.

When Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, the original members of the RSC (Reduced Shakespeare Company) played their madcap cut-down version of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe in …

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Youth festival fuelled by fertile imaginations

Adelaide
Come Out Festival 2011
March 25 – April 1.

Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
by Jason De Santis
Tandanya, Adelaide
March 29.
Presented in association with the Darwin Festival
(August 11 -28) and Ten Days on the Island (April 1-3).

When the Pictures Came
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
and Children’s Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
March 28
Ten Days on the Island (April 1-3).

Escape from Peligro Island
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Windmill …

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February 27, 2011

Satire driven by comic gusto

2011
February 24
Adelaide
Theatre

Moliere’s The Misanthrope
In a version by Martin Crimp
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
February 22. Tickets  $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until March 13.

We know that classics often improve with time, their insights and observations becoming more apt. But up-dated adaptations can often have a more butterfly-like lifespan. Happily, this is not so with UK playwright, Martin Crimp’s astute, deftly-rhymed translation of Moliere’s The

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October 23, 2010

Vitalstatistix & The Misery Children

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Theatre

October 20, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre
Ruby Bruise
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Vitalstatistix & The Misery Children
Waterside Workers Hall, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide.
October 20. Tickets  $18 – $25.
Bookings at BASS telephone 131246 or bass.net.au
Until October 30.

Ruby Bruise is so full of life and its various experiences that it takes four actors to tell her story. Fin Kruckemeyer’s hypermanic text takes her from birth to 39 in a zany, intense, often troubled series of women’s rites and …

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