ASSITEJ 2008
Performing Arts Festival for Young People
May 9-18.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In only the second time in 43 years, ASSITEJ (French acronym for the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) has held its triennial world congress in Australia – and, again, it has chosen Adelaide as host city. Along with some 600 delegates the event gathered artists, teachers, parents and young people – around 2000 in all, plus thousands more school children attending the …

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide. March 11.
Until 16 March.

Since one of the highlights of Brett Sheehy’s 2006 Adelaide Festival was Nora, the theatrically inventive re-framing of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Berlin’s Schaubuhne Theatre, the company’s scheduled return this year with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has created high expectations and a great opportunity for festival audiences not only to renew the connection with director …

2007

Sizwe Banzi is Dead
by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona
French adaptation by Marie-Helene Estienne

The CICT/Theatre des Bouffes du Nord
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
November 7. 2007.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Some productions create great expectations and there can be few greater than for director Peter Brook. His work has the status of legend in this city – especially for those who rate such productions as The Conference of the Birds, The Mahabharata and the …

2007
Murray Bramwell previews the current production of a South African drama classic directed by theatre legend Peter Brook.

Siswe Banzi is Dead opens at the Space on November 7 but it is not for the first time in Adelaide. Athol Fugard’s play, written in collaboration with actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona, was scheduled, along with its companion work The Island, at the 1976 Adelaide Festival. The two plays with their vivid and disturbing accounts of life in South …