2007

Hotel Sorrento

By Hannie Rayson

Christine Harris and HIT Productions

Her Majesty’s

Two Weeks with the Queen

Adapted by Mary Morris

from the novel by Morris Gleitzman

Windmill Performing Arts

Dunstan Playhouse

Unspoken

Written and performed by Rebecca Clarke

Vitalstatistix and Performing Lines

Waterside, Port Adelaide

Murray Bramwell

The eventual fate of a successful play can often be sustained obscurity. This is true of other art forms too – but there is nothing more obscure than a play that …

Theatre
Murray Bramwell

Night Letters
by writer Susan Rogers and director Chris Drummond
inspired by the novel by Robert Dessaix

State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Queen’s Theatre
Adelaide
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Tickets $ 58 – $ 20
until 27 March, 2004

Robert, the central figure in StateTheatre’s Festival production, Night Letters, is described as an Australian wrapped up in language. That very aptly describes not only author Robert Dessaix but his aromatic, idiosyncratic novel – part …

Moonfleet
adapted by Catherine Zimdahl
Windmill Performing Arts and
Mainstreet Theatre Company

Carrick Hill

Murray Bramwell

Windmill Performing Arts has a three year arrangement with the Mt Gambier based Mainstreet Theatre Company and, by the look of their first joint venture, the combination is going to be a happy one. Mainstreet director Teresa Bell has taken an adaptation by playwright Catherine Zimdahl of Moonfleet, J.M.Falkner’s lively story of smugglers, ghosts and true destinies, and turned it into an engaging promenade …

Moliere’s Scapin
adapted by Scott Witt

State Theatre Company
with Queensland Theatre Company

Dunstan Playhouse

Murray Bramwell

It is said that Moliere wrote The Rascalities of Scapin to beat the competition. The Italian Commedia dell’Arte troupes were all the rage in Paris in the 1670s and the famous French playwright was looking to win back support for his own theatre. He had borrowed heavily from Commedia in many of his plays, dispensing with masks but keeping much of the formula. …