Tu Tu Wha
Australian Dance Theatre
Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September, 1991.

“Tu Tu Wha implores us to examine why there is a separation of intuition from the intellect and to ask is technology our slave or are we slaves to it? To re-acquaint ourselves with an ancient and familiar paradigm of the world as an intricate organic net or interaction.”

There you have it in the proverbial nutshell. ADT’s latest venture is nothing if not ambitious – The History …

Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Big Ensemble
Lion Theatre.

Of all Ibsen’s plays, Ghosts is the most scarifying. Its themes are darkly deterministic, its social criticism relentless. Ibsen’s plays spoke not just for his own country but for all of Europe, haunted by the ghosts of dead ideas, old and obsolete beliefs. As his central character, Mrs Alving says – “They are not alive in us but they remain in us none the less, and we can never rid themselves of …

1991

Florence Who?

by Roxxy Bent

Junction Theatre

Red Like the Devil

by Teresa Crea

Doppio Teatro

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Now in their new possie in Thebarton, Junction Theatre continue their Art and Working Life series with Florence Who? by Adelaide writer Roxxy Bent. Commissioned by the Australian Nursing Federation, the play takes a lively look at the practices and politics of a profession often distorted by stereotype. Roxxy Bent, widely-regarded for her quirky writing for Vitalstatistix, noted that …

1991

Adelaide Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell talks to Andrew Bleby about his new job in Adelaide

This year brings  some interesting changes for arts administrator Andrew Bleby. After he has finished his third stint at the centre of Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival in May he will return to his home town Adelaide to take up a three year appointment as Program Director for the Festival Centre Trust.

Andrew first worked as Education Officer with the Festival Centre between 1977 and …

1990

The Red Shed Company’s final production for the 1990 is a new play by Irish writer Frank McGuinness.  Murray Bramwell  talks with director Cath McKinnon and actor Eileen Darley about Cathaginians which opens next Thursday night.

Ask anyone about the Punic Wars and they will tell you that they were waged by Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. The first war was a power struggle over Sicily, the second starred Hannibal and ended in humiliating defeat while  …