Miracle
Tobsha Learner
Vitalstatistix
Waterside

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Miracle, Vitalstatistix’ latest production at the Waterside, marks a further collaboration between writer Tobsha Learner and actor Rose Clemente. After Witchplay comes Miracle, a fantasy set in Triads Supermarket where long-time check out operator, Immaculata Santini hears the voice of God through the cash register. The play is centrally a vehicle for Clemente as Immaculata, a performance which not only propels the show but gives it considerable warmth and charm.

Again …

Birds of the Moon
by Anna O’Connor
Patch Theatre Centre
South Australia
Director- Dave Brown, Designer- Kerry Reid, Composer- John Shortis, Choreographer- Guy Detot, Performers- Rosalind Aylmore, Nic Hurcombe.

Birds of the Moon, Dave Brown’s first production as Artistic Director of Patch Theatre Centre has been touring junior primaries with a simple tale of two migrating shearwaters. Otherwise known as muttonbirds, shearwaters breed in the islands of Bass Strait and along the southern coast of the mainland. Barely have they …

Snap
devised by Magpie Theatre SA
Director: Steven Gration
Designer: Kathryn Sproul, Choreographer: Deb Batton ,
Music: Andrea Rieniets, Stage Manager: Shelley Lush
Cast: Fille Dusseljee, Francis Greenslade, Nick Hope, Kate Roberts, Mandi
Sandilands

Snap is a group devised project from Magpie hatched in consultation with children from Sturt Street Primary School in Adelaide. The aim was to create a work involving visual arts, drama, dance and music which, among other things, examined the theme of separation. Deliberately avoiding a …

Sweetown
by Melissa Reeves
Red Shed Company
Red Shed, Cardwell St.
November, 1991.

The Red Shed’s latest – Sweetown, a new commission from Melissa Reeves – is their strongest show since Road. Their output has been rather patchy of late and, with their commitment to produce original work, they set a hard pace for themselves. This production marks not just a return to form, but a consolidation of their claim to being one of the leading alternative theatre …

Offshore
by P.P. Cranney
Junction Theatre Company
Thebarton

Offshore, the latest from Junction and the old firm of Cranney and Crowhurst, is another in the Art and Working Life series. This time, though, there is a shift of focus from the Australian workplace to the little known phenomenon of the Export Processing Zone. EPZs are found throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines all have them. There have also been investigations of …

The Cooked and the Raw
By Nick Gill
Adelaide Performing Theatre
Astor Hotel

The idea of the theatre restaurant is hardly new. Patrons have often sat at dramatic soirees rattling their cutlery while thespians cavort incongruously around them. But Nick Gill and the Adelaide Performing Theatre have given the notion quite a few more half turns with their “Exquisite Ceremony of Appetite and Desire.” The Cooked and the Raw is theatrical scratch-and-sniff, a four course play with a four course …