1990

Festival Theatre
Adelaide, August 13, 1990.

Everybody knows that Peter Ustinov is a remarkable fellow but the list of his accomplishments is boggling. Linguist, playwright, novelist, director, actor, ambassador for UNICEF, his swag of honours include two Academy Awards, several Emmys, a Grammy, British Film Awards,
numerous Critics Awards, as well as a CBE, the Franklin Medal, a chair in the French Academy, and, in June this year, a knighthood.

In his show, An Evening With Peter Ustinov, the …

1990

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Footsbarn
Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Footsbarn are a remarkable theatre company. With minimal subsidy they have toured for nearly twenty years presenting more than 47 productions. While their range is wide, Shakespeare is their staple. Adelaide saw Macbeth in the 1986 Festival, a production which they rehearsed at McLaren Vale and took on the the road to sixteen different countries.

From its origins in Cornwall (in the barn of founding actor, Oliver …

1990

Murray Bramwell talks with Beatrice Beaucaire, Fredricka Lascelles and John Kilby about Footsbarn Theatre’s latest production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which has its world premiere in Adelaide tonight.

When, in Cornwall in 1971, they first began rehearsing in a barn belonging to an actor named Oliver Foot, the members of Footsbarn Theatre could not have possibly foreseen that they would become perpetual travellers, a theatre community trekking across continents performing to audiences from Darwin to Moscow to Tunis.

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