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June 01, 1989

Couple of Kids

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Couple of Kids
by Julianne O’Brien
Magpie Theatre Company.
May 1989.

Directed by Angela Chaplin

  • Design: Kathryn Sproul
  • Lighting: Peter Taylor
  • Composer: Andree Greenwell
  • Choreographer: Helen Herbertson
  • Cast: Eileen Darley, Nic Hurcombe, Claudia La Rose,

Richard Margetson, Caroline Mignone, Stephen Mitchell,
Brett Wood, Peter Wood.

Magpie’s Angela Chaplin has taken on an ambitious task with her production of Julianne O’Brien’s Couple of Kids. Staged in a former church at Site 55, Port Road Hindmarsh, with an imaginative design by …

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May 01, 1989

Staging the Dreams

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Theatre

The 1989 Come Out festival has ended and yet again this remarkable event has focused activities in all areas of youth arts. The more than fifty events involving .hundreds of performers and audiences of many thousands are only part of a chain reaction of activities generated in schools and communities in the metropolitan area and throughout the state.

In fifteen years Come Out has expanded and consolidated such that it is almost taken for granted locally. It is worth saying …

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April 01, 1989

Memorable

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Ricordi
Doppio Teatro
Lion Theatre

As their name suggests, Doppio Teatro (Dual Theatre) is a bilingual theatre company with a single-minded commitment to the promotion and celebration of ltalo-Australian culture. Since its inception in 1983, Doppio has staged productions for the Festival Fringe, Piccolo Spoleto and Come Out as well as schools and Italian clubs in the metropolitan. area and regional centres.

Under the guidance of artistic directors, Christopher Bell and Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro has, with productions such as …

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February 01, 1989

Community Announcement

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Comedy,Theatre

Wogs Out of Work
Space Cabaret Club, Adelaide Festival Centre

Wogs Out of Work is the brainchild of Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares and Maria Portesi. It began in Melbourne two years ago and has now played in ·most of the state capitals and regional centres. Gordon, the road sweeper ambles amiably through the crowd to begin a wog’s-eye-view monologue. The ethnic origin is undifferentiated Mediterranean and the comedy is as broad as the Parthenon. Gordon recalls his encounter at the …

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October 01, 1988

The New Dreaming

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Interviews,Theatre

The New Dreaming
Come Out 89

Murray Bramwell talks with Michael Fitzgerald.

Since it began as a row of tents in the Adelaide Parklands in 1974, Come Out has become a major youth arts festival virtually unrivalled in the world. Its reputation for quality, diversity and the sheer scale of its mobilisation is a credit to the energy and commitment of a succession of directors and administrators and an army of teachers and arts workers. Come Out has continued to …

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June 01, 1988

Hating Alison Ashley

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Hating Alison Ashley
by Richard Tulloch
Magpie Theatre Company South Australia
Directed by: Robert Draffin
Design: Julie Lynch
Cast: Eileen Darley, Annabel Giles, Michelle
Stanley, Claudia La Rose, Joanna Cooper, Michael
Habib, Peter Wood.

It seems that everyone has been hating Alison Ashley lately. Within the space of two weeks Richard Tulloch’s play has been staged in Sydney, Canberra and by the Magpie Theatre Company in Adelaide. Tulloch has adapted Robin Klein’s popular novel about big changes at Barringa East …

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March 01, 1988

Shallow

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,State Theatre Company,Theatre

1841
by Michael Gow
State Theatre Company
Playhouse

Theatre commissions are a bit like cargo cults. Titles are announced, brochures printed, runways are built and everybody waits for the play to land triumphantly. Except that, more often than not, it either overshoots the tarmac or pancakes unceremoniously in the midst of consternation and disbelief.

When the State Theatre Company secured the services of Michael Gow to write a play for the 1988 Adelaide Festival with additional support from the Bicentennial …

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Maximus

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Theatre

Circus Oz
Rymill Park

Circus Oz were always more fun than a bucket of frogs and their Tenth Anniversary World Tour performances at the Festival must be the best yet. They have an effortless mix of physical skill, adroit comedy, musical flair and sheer good nature.

Tim Coldwell, a founding member of the company, is a genial sight in his baggy suit and size 13 sneakers and straight away the show establishes an easy rapport with the audience.

A Bicentennial …

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Flighty

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

A Flock of Flamin’ Galahs
Troupe Theatre
Centralia Hotel

Despite their “extensive and detailed” research into the life and times of five Australian eccentrics, Troupe have not managed to gather any semblance of unity or purpose into A Flock of Flamin’ Galahs, their Festival show at the Centralia Hotel on North Terrace. They seem to hope that a collection of tableaux, some hoary old audience participation numbers and an overlong serve of inferior G and S will charm audiences enough …

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January 01, 1988

Dreamtime

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Away
by Michael Gow
State Theatre Company
Playhouse

The State Theatre Company and director Aubrey Mellor have concluded another season with a strong production. But although done with flair last year’s Wild Honey was really just tizzied up minor Chekhov. This year’s work is a new Australian play of some distinction.

Away has been widely performed in the past two years – there have been three separate productions in the last month alone. Such fulsome attention might prove daunting for …

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