May 29, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre
BRIEF

The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 27. Tickets  $ 18 – $30. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until June 4.    SA Regional tour June 7 -23.
School bookings : 08  8415 5333.

Edward Albee’s tension-filled one act, two-hander from 1958, The Zoo Story,  reminds us, if we needed it,  that primitive animal instinct extends to human beings as well. Peter, a well-to-do …

May 6, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

November
By David Mamet
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
May 5. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 22.

Charles P. Smith is President of the United States. He is within days of losing re-election and he doesn’t know why. “”It’s because you’ve screwed the country into a cocked hat,” his adviser, Archie Brown, helpfully explains. “But at least I’ve done something !” is …

March 31, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
By Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
March 30. Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 16.

When Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, the original members of the RSC (Reduced Shakespeare Company) played their madcap cut-down version of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe in …

2011
February 24
Adelaide
Theatre

Moliere’s The Misanthrope
In a version by Martin Crimp
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
February 22. Tickets  $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until March 13.

We know that classics often improve with time, their insights and observations becoming more apt. But up-dated adaptations can often have a more butterfly-like lifespan. Happily, this is not so with UK playwright, Martin Crimp’s astute, deftly-rhymed translation of Moliere’s The …

August 10, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre

Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Nikki Bloom and Geordie Brookman

State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 10. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 29.

In their sharply imagined and theatrically absorbing re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, writer Nikki Bloom and director Geordie Brookman,  remind us that the play itself opens with declarations of its lamentable ending. There is no …

King Lear
By William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse. November 5.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Unlike the other Shakespearean heavyweights, Lear is the tragedy of a kingdom, not an individual. When the old man makes the fateful decision to divide jurisdiction of his land, he sunders it – and all hell breaks lose. When the power is fragmented it turns against itself. Legitimacy is replaced by civil strife, the chain of being is catastrophically overturned.

In State Theatre’s production …