August 21, 2013
Adelaide Theatre

Babyteeth
by Rita Kalnejais
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 20. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 7.
Duration : 2 hours 20 minutes including interval

“How do you live like you’ve got nothing to lose ? “ that is the question playwright Rita Kalnejais poses as the starting point for Babyteeth, a captivating, sometimes audacious, comic drama about Milla, a terminally ill teenage …

Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Joanna Murray-Smith
State Theatre Company.
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 30. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246
Until May 18.

“Men and women,“ Henrik Ibsen once observed, “don’t belong to the same century.” He was writing, in 1889, preliminary jottings for one of his best-known plays, Hedda Gabler – but, even 124 years later, the remark carries a rebuke. Ibsen had made the same point earlier, in his …

November 7, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
by Sarah Ruhl
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

November 7. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 24.

In the opening scene of In the Next Room, Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated play from 2009, the intrepid medical scientist, Dr Givings,  makes his confident diagnosis : “Mr Daldry, your wife is suffering from hysteria. It is a very clear …