2007

Adam Cook talks to Murray Bramwell about actors, audiences and his big ideas for the State Theatre Season for 2008.

From the time he first presented himself as a candidate for the job of Artistic Director Adam Cook made it clear that the pitch is very important. It doesn’t matter how good the season is if no-one turns up to the shows.

Three years later, and he is still enjoying playing Saatchi to his own Saatchi as, over coffee …

Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley

State Theatre Company presents
The Sydney Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse.
September 6. Until September 22, 2007

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It has been a productive time for Adelaide theatre in recent weeks. At the Bakehouse, Vitalstatistix has staged an excellent production, directed by Catherine Fitzgerald, of Love, Patricia Cornelius’s award-winning Australian play about a lovers’ triangle plunging into addiction and youthful despair. And for young audiences, Windmill Productions has presented a charming home-grown version of …

2007

Triple Threat : A Triple Bill

Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen
By Tennessee Williams

Hot Fudge
By Caryl Churchill

Central Park West
By Woody Allen

State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre
July 10. Until July 28, 2007.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

One of the more constant pressures on artistic directors of the State Theatre Company is to ensure there is plenty of work for local artists – whether actors, …

2007
Theatre
Adelaide

Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen
By Tennessee Williams

Hot Fudge
By Caryl Churchill

Central Park West
By Woody Allen

State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre
July 10, 2007 Until July 28.
Tickets $17 – $55. Bookings BASS 131 246

In theatre parlance a triple threat is someone who can dance and sing as well as act. But with this winter program on the mainstage of the Dunstan …

2007

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company

and Queensland Theatre Company

April 3. Dunstan Playhouse. Until April 21

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The main task with Hamlet is to make him come alive. Whatever the leanings in interpretation  – that he be older or younger, bookish scholar or renaissance cleverboots, devious or bi-polar – Hamlet has to engage us in his bid to unmask a murder conspiracy, even though he says, and does, things which don’t add up. This …

2007

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company of South Australia
And Queensland Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 3. Tickets: $17-$ 60. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 21, 2007

A new version of Hamlet is the chance to see the latest plausible hypothesis. The Dane, after all, is a most enigmatic fellow and the task of both actor and director is to present him, from the ghost scene to the endgame duel, as if all …

2007

This Uncharted Hour
By Finegan Kruckemeyer
Brink Productions and
State Theatre of South Australia
13 February. Dunstan Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

As its title suggests This Uncharted Hour is a venture into unnavigated territory. The central character, Luka, begins a day like any other but when a dog runs in the path of his car, things start to go awry. In his consternation, the young man goes driving near old haunts for a close encounter (in a Fellini-ish …