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May 30, 2006

Bashings and Bumps in the Night

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2006

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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May 12, 2006

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

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, 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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Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

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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Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

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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November 11, 2005

Doubling the Doors

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2005

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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November 03, 2005

Romping through a fine farce

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2005
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 …

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November 01, 2005

A New Director and a New Direction

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adam 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, …

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October 28, 2005

Incendiary Devices

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Bombshells
by Joanna Murray-Smith
State Theatre Company
With Melbourne Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse

A Thing Called Snake
by Stephen House
iNSPACE
Adelaide Festival Centre
October, 2005

Murray Bramwell

It is not hard to see why Bombshells has had successful seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Edinburgh and London’s West End – Caroline O’Connor is a champagne performer, as classy as she is spritzy. Written for her by Joanna Murray Smith, Bombshells is a vehicle for her energy and warm comedy. Tautly …

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October 21, 2005

Narratives Entwined

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Theatre
Murray Bramwell

Checklist For an Armed Robber
By Vanessa Bates
Vitalstatistix
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide.
October 19. Tickets $12- $23. Bookings (08) 8447 6211
Until November 5, 2005

It is almost three years to the day since Chechen rebels stormed the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow during a performance of the popular musical Nord-Ost. The siege lasted three days and resulted in the deaths of fifty rebels and 117 hostages – the latter, for the most part, as …

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September 30, 2005

Father of Night

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

The Daylight Atheist
By Tom Scott

State Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company co-production
The Space

Murray Bramwell

A daylight atheist, New Zealand playwright Tom Scott tells us, is someone who doesn’t believe in God until it gets dark. Dan Moffat, the dominant of many voices in Scott’s monodrama, is a man for whom the night is closing in. An Irish emigrant to New Zealand after the end of the war in 1945, Moffat is followed by his wife and infant …

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