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May 24, 1989

Winning Hearts and Minds

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

1989

Director Rose Clemente and members of the cast talk with Murray Bramwell about The Heartbreak Kid currently playing at Theatre 62.

It was after presenting Witchplay  for the Fringe season at the Lion Theatre last year that Adelaide actors Rose Clemente and Christina Totos decided to plan further ventures. Witchplay, a solo piece, had been performed by Rose and directed by Christina. Now, for The Heartbreak Kid, the roles are reversed. Along with local performers, Ian Dixon, Maurie Annese …

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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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Breakthrough?

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Interviews,Theatre

“We have retrieved a lot of necessary ground but nobody wants to know about that”

Leigh Warren, Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre
interviewed by Murray Bramwell

FUNDING cuts continue to loom for most performing companies in much the same way that Birnam Wood moved on Dunsinane, although, at the moment it seems to be the dance companies who are particularly vulnerable. Recently, Sydney’s Once Extra Company lost funds altogether while elsewhere, artistic differences are resulting in resignations and uncertainty. …

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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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April 01, 1988

Flighty

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,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 over-long serve of inferior G-and-S will charm …

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Beauty and the Beast

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Festival,Theatre

Beauty and the Beast
by David Holman
Magpie Theatre Company, South Australia
Directed by Chris Johnson

Design: Julie Lynch. Music: Alan John.
Cast: Annabel Giles, Sharon LeRay, Claudia LaRose,
Michael Habib, Tom Considine, Tim Aris.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

This is the third Adelaide Festival in which the Magpie Theatre
Company has staged a new work by David Holman. It was the celebrated No Worries in 1984, and in 1986 The Small Poppies. But with Beauty and the Beast it …

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March 01, 1988

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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October 01, 1987

A Sporting Chance

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

A Sporting Chance
by Katherine Thomson
Magpie Theatre Company SA
Directed by Chris Johnson
Design: Ken Wilby and Mark Thompson
Music: Ian Farr, Movement: Belinda Saltmarsh
Cast: Sharon LeRay, Michael Habib, Annabel Giles,
Michael Kitschke.

Work for Magpie’s A Sporting Chance began in April this year when Sydney playwright and actor, Katherine Thomson began researching attitudes toward sport among thirteen and fourteen year olds. She spoke to numbers of high school students-in particular from Fremont High School in Adelaide’s northern …

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