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August 15, 2010

Romeo & Juliet

Filed under: 2010,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

August 10, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre

Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Nikki Bloom and Geordie Brookman

State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 10. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 29.

In their sharply imagined and theatrically absorbing re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, writer Nikki Bloom and director Geordie Brookman,  remind us that the play itself opens with declarations of its lamentable ending. There is no …

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February 20, 2010

Royal Ruin

Filed under: 2010,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

King Lear
By William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse. November 5.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Unlike the other Shakespearean heavyweights, Lear is the tragedy of a kingdom, not an individual. When the old man makes the fateful decision to divide jurisdiction of his land, he sunders it – and all hell breaks lose. When the power is fragmented it turns against itself. Legitimacy is replaced by civil strife, the chain of being is catastrophically overturned.

In State Theatre’s production …

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Death and Delusions

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

The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
State Theatre Company of SA
Dunstan Playhouse. August 4

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere, adapted by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
The Space. August 5

Arabian Night
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Accidental Productions
The Bakehouse. August 13

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A death in the family is not only a time of sadness, it also brings together friends, relatives, estranged siblings and blasts from the past. Old griefs  join new ones, past memories are not only …

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November 05, 2009

Characters rise above a costume drama of no fixed dress

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

King Lear
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 5. Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until November 21.

It is as if Shakespeare’s King Lear is made of huge tectonic plates called power, loyalty and love and, when the king declares his darker purpose to divide the kingdom, they begin to grind against one another like the crack of doom. Lear is a huge, bleak, primeval play, set in …

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October 31, 2009

BRIEF

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2009

BRIEF

The Under Room

by Edward Bond

five.point.one

Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide

October 30. Until November 14.

Tickets:  $18 – $22. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com

Or by phone on (08)8227 0505.

It is 2077, the UK is under military rule and an Immigrant breaks into Joan’s house. Sheltering him in her cellar (he calls it an “under room”) she promises to help him find a future – courtesy of  the Fagan-like Jack, a ruthless people smuggler. In Edward Bond’s …

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October 08, 2009

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Things We Do For Love
By Alan Ayckbourn
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 6. Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until October 17, 2009

While it is the chirpy Seventies tune from 10CC which lends its name to State Theatre’s latest offering, it is another song used in the production – Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart – which equally matches the mood of the play.
The prolific Alan Ayckbourn …

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August 05, 2009

Well enough to work magic

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere.
Adaptation by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 5 . Tickets $24.90 – $42. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until August 22.

Laughter may be the best medicine but in the case of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac, you would have to say that medicine is the best laughter. Also known as The Imaginary Invalid, this pungent comedy, first performed in 1673, takes aim at those quacks, charlatans and medical phonies who, with their …

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August 04, 2009

Death and Delusions

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

The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
State Theatre Company of SA
Dunstan Playhouse. August 4

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere, adapted by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
The Space. August 5

Arabian Night
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Accidental Productions
The Bakehouse. August 13

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A death in the family is not only a time of sadness, it also brings together friends, relatives, estranged siblings and blasts from the past. Old griefs join new ones, past memories are not only …

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August 01, 2009

Parallel Worlds

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

The Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, June 30.

Mnemonic
Conceived by Simon McBurney and Devised by Complicite
State Theatre Company of South Australia
In association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Program
Space Theatre, July 2 .

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Nothing can quite match The Wizard of Oz. Ever since Judy Garland, as Dorothy, was spun from black and white Kansas into the dazzling lolly- coloured world of Oz in the 1939 MGM film version, …

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July 02, 2009

The iceman cometh memorably into focus

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Mnemonic
Conceived by Simon McBurney and Devised by Complicite

State Theatre Company of South Australia
In association with the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Program
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 2 . Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 18.

What are the traces of an individual life, a culture, a relationship, a family? How are they remembered and, in the end, what do they mean ? UK’s Theatre Complicite’s inventive investigation of memory and meaning, Mnemonic…

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