2006
Murray Bramwell talks with director, Michael Hill, in week three of rehearsals, about State Theatre’s up-coming production of Waiting For Godot
Waiting For Godot is probably the most famous play of the 20th century . Written over six weeks in 1949, it made a legend of its author, Samuel Beckett, when first performed in Paris in 1953 and its reputation spread when it opened in London and New York two years later. Described by Martin Esslin as a leading …
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Mr Bailey’s Minder
By Debra Oswald
Directors’ Choice Season
Holden Street Theatres
The Studio
Until 10 June.
Murray Bramwell
Leo Bailey – the chaotic, alcoholic, undeniably gifted, painter at the centre of Debra Oswald’s play – is an identikit of any number of Aussie painters of the past thirty years. The blokes, that is, who lived large, selfish, womanizing lives, squandered their money and fame, and found themselves with few friends to speak of, and even fewer family members …
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By Debra Oswald
Directors’ Choice Season
Holden Street Theatres
The Studio
Until 10 June.
Murray Bramwell
Leo Bailey – the chaotic, alcoholic, undeniably gifted, painter at the centre of Debra Oswald’s play – is an identikit of any number of Aussie painters of the past thirty years. The blokes, that is, who lived large, selfish, womanizing lives, squandered their money and fame, and found themselves with few friends to speak of, and even fewer family members to speak to. …
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Bash
by Neil Labute
Directors’ Choice Season
Holden Street Theatres
Until 16 September.
The Woman in Black
Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill
Her Majesty’s.
Until 9 September.
Murray Bramwell
American playwright Neil Labute has called them latterday plays, but the characters in Bash, his triple bill of one-act pieces, are anything but latter day saints. Raised in Utah as a Mormon himself, Labute draws on these experiences to represent the everyday quality of …
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Beautiful Words
By Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.
May 10. Tickets $ 18- 32. bookings BASS 131 246
Thursday to Saturday until May 20, 2006
People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …
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Murray Bramwell
Beautiful Words
By Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.
May 10. Tickets $ 18- 32. bookings BASS 131 246
Thursday to Saturday until May 20.
People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …
Continue Reading Back to top2006
Murray Bramwell
Beautiful Words
By Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.
May 10. Tickets $ 18- 32. bookings BASS 131 246
Thursday to Saturday until May 20.
People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …
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Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
Dunstan Playhouse
Until 19 November, 2005
Murray Bramwell
Where would theatre be without the three door farce? In the century beginning with Feydeau and continuing to the Seventies and Eighties romps by Ray Cooney and Brian Rix, the antics of philandering husbands have been cut off at the ankles by the comedy of karma, circumstance and intersecting third parties. The titles tell it all – Run For Your Wife, Not Now Darling, Out of …
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Theatre
Murray Bramwell
Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Theatre.
November 1, 2005. Tickets $13.50- $49. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until November 19.
Noises off are off-stage sound effects – like a pistol shot in Chekhov, bells tolling, or someone selling flowers for the dead. However, in Michael Frayn’s classic 1982 farce they refer to the sounds of the actors themselves writhing in pain, calling out prompt lines, falling down …
Continue Reading Back to topAdam Cook , State Theatre Company’s Artistic Director for 2005,
removes the veil.
Murray Bramwell
It is midday on a Friday and the crowd is gathered in the Dunstan Playhouse
for the launch of the State Theatre Company’s 2005 season. There’s the usual mix of subscribers, sponsors, arts heavies and media, as well as actors, techs, artisans, luvvies and hopefuls, all with plenty say about what should happen next for State Theatre, Adelaide and, of course, themselves. And this year, …