July 2, 2006
Murray Bramwell

Two Weeks with the Queen
Adapted by Mary Morris
from the novel by Morris Gleitzman.
Windmill Performing Arts
In association with State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 1. Tickets $ 19 – 27. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 15.
Riverside Theatre, Sydney
July 19 – 22.

For their school holiday season Windmill Productions have revived a favourite from the recent past. Two Weeks with the Queen – Mary …

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Beautiful Words
By Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.
May 10. Tickets $ 18- 32. bookings BASS 131 246
Thursday to Saturday until May 20, 2006

People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …

Bombshells
by Joanna Murray-Smith
State Theatre Company
With Melbourne Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse

A Thing Called Snake
by Stephen House
iNSPACE
Adelaide Festival Centre
October, 2005

Murray Bramwell

It is not hard to see why Bombshells has had successful seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Edinburgh and London’s West End – Caroline O’Connor is a champagne performer, as classy as she is spritzy. Written for her by Joanna Murray Smith, Bombshells is a vehicle for her energy and warm comedy. Tautly …

Theatre
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Checklist For an Armed Robber
By Vanessa Bates
Vitalstatistix
Waterside, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide.
October 19. Tickets $12- $23. Bookings (08) 8447 6211
Until November 5, 2005

It is almost three years to the day since Chechen rebels stormed the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow during a performance of the popular musical Nord-Ost. The siege lasted three days and resulted in the deaths of fifty rebels and 117 hostages – the latter, for the most part, as …

The Daylight Atheist
By Tom Scott

State Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company co-production
The Space

Murray Bramwell

A daylight atheist, New Zealand playwright Tom Scott tells us, is someone who doesn’t believe in God until it gets dark. Dan Moffat, the dominant of many voices in Scott’s monodrama, is a man for whom the night is closing in. An Irish emigrant to New Zealand after the end of the war in 1945, Moffat is followed by his wife and infant …

Midnite
An Opera created by Raffaele Marcellino
and Doug McLeod based on the novel by Randolph Stow

Windmill Productions and OzOpera in association
with State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
5 July. 2005

Murray Bramwell

Randolph Stow’s zany bushranger story, Midnite, is a very likely choice for a theatre work for children. Along with his quirky companions – Khat the talking Siamese pussycat, Major the cockatoo and Red Ned his trusty steed – Midnite (spelt that way , …

One Small Step
by Heather Nimmo

Bakehouse Theatre
Angas Street
28 May, 2005

Murray Bramwell

It is often said that if the shoe fits we have to wear it – or is it the bed we have lie in ? At any rate, in Heather Nimmo’s good-natured monodrama, One Small Step, the central character, Regina, a machinist in a footwear factory is ready to give everything the boot. A live-wire sheila with two children – teenager Sinbad and pre-schooler Angel …

Weary
by Alan Hopgood

Dunstan Playhouse
13 April, 2005

Murray Bramwell

Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop waited more than forty years before he turned the scattered notes of his wartime diaries into publishable form. Recorded in dreadful circumstances while he was a prisoner of the Japanese, first in camps in Java and then along the Burma-Thailand Railway, they now stand as one of the most remarkable documents of World War II. As senior medical officer he recorded with scrupulous precision the …

9 March, 2005
Murray Bramwell

Emily Loves to Bounce
Inspired by the books of Stephen Michael King
Patch Theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Adelaide
9 March. Tickets $15 – $7.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 19 March.

The Green Sheep
Based on the book by Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
Windmill Productions.
The Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
9 March. Tickets $ 15 – $7
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 19 March.

The Come Out 2005 Australian Festival for …

Please Go Hop !
The Border Project

Fowlers Live
2 February, 2005

Murray Bramwell

The Border Project’s absorbing theatre game show Please Go Hop! thrives on fun, wit, frenetic energy, Eighties nostalgia and a very welcome serve of theatrical flair. Taking its name from Plastic Bertrand’s kitsch classic Ca Plane Pour Moi (or maybe the Captain Sensible translation, Jet Boy Jet Girl ) it adroitly brings together improvisation and theatrical set pieces in the random format of a dice and …