Adelaide Theatre
Maggie Stone
by Caleb Lewis
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 12. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 30 .
Duration : 100 minutes, no interval.
It was Polonius, in Hamlet who said : “Neither a borrower or a lender be/ For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” He’s right, but that’s not how we live in the world. In his astutely incisive, often bitterly funny, new …
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Vere (Faith)
by John Doyle
State Theatre Company
And Sydney theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 16. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until November 2 .
Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes including interval
Vere is the name of the central character in John Doyle’s engaging new play about an Australian physicist on the brink of a momentous discovery. In its Slavic origins, Vere means faith, but in Latin it …
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by Noel Coward
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice
Kneehigh (UK)
Presented by Arts Projects Australia,
with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until September 28.
Duration : 1 hours 40 minutes (no interval)
Tour dates : Canberra Theatre, October 2-5; Melbourne:
Athenaeum Theatre, October 9-27; Sydney, The Concourse Theatre, October 31-November 17; Wollongong, IMB Theatre November 20-24; Perth , …
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 …
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The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 2. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings: BASS 131 246, bass.net.au
Until July 14.
Shakespeare’s comedies are full of tricks, dupes and misunderstandings. His characters frequently use disguise, subterfuge and illusion to create confusion. Appearances are altered to remedy injustice, take revenge and, often, to bring the misguided and the wrongheaded to their senses. But only his first …
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Come Out Festival 2013
May 22 – 31.
Random
by debbie tucker green
State Theatre Company
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
May 29.
The Vistors
by Sean Riley
Urban Myth Theatre Company
The Goodwood Institute, Adelaide
May 31. Tickets : $ 18.50
Bookings: BASS 131 246 or bass.net.au
Until June 8.
The Moon is a Balloon
Devised and performed by Patch Theatre
Odeon Theatre, Norwood, Adelaide.
June 1.
Come Out, Adelaide’s leading festival for young people began in 1974 …
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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 …
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Adelaide Festival
Theatre
The Kreutzer Sonata
Based on the Novella by Leo Tolstoy
Adaptation by Sue Smith
State Theatre Company.
The State Theatre Company Scenic Workshop,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 2. Tickets $ 25 – $ 65
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 17.
The first night of a new play is always a high pressure event. The first night of a featured work in an arts festival, even more so. When it …
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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 …
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Notes from Underground
Pornography
by Simon Stephens
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 27. Season October 18 – 27. 2012
On July 7th 2005 four young men, three of Pakistani descent, one Jamaican, all aged between 18 and 30, drove from Leeds down to Luton where they caught a train connecting to the London Underground into the city. At 8.50am, three of them triggered suicide bomb devices in their backpacks and caused mayhem …
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