2009

BRIEF

The Under Room

by Edward Bond

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Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide

October 30. Until November 14.

Tickets:  $18 – $22. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com

Or by phone on (08)8227 0505.

It is 2077, the UK is under military rule and an Immigrant breaks into Joan’s house. Sheltering him in her cellar (he calls it an “under room”) she promises to help him find a future – courtesy of  the Fagan-like Jack, a ruthless people smuggler. In Edward Bond’s …

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere.
Adaptation by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
August 5 . Tickets $24.90 – $42. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until August 22.

Laughter may be the best medicine but in the case of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac, you would have to say that medicine is the best laughter. Also known as The Imaginary Invalid, this pungent comedy, first performed in 1673, takes aim at those quacks, charlatans and medical phonies who, with their …

The Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
June 30. Tickets: $29. Group of 6 – $24.
Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 11.
Sydney Theatre Company season
October 23- November 1.

It is 70 years since, in the legendary MGM movie, Judy Garland’s Dorothy was mysteriously transported from her monochrome mid-western farm to the technicolor Land of Oz. Now, Windmill theatre director, Rosemary Myers, has given the L.Frank Baum classic a new spin with …

True West
by Sam Shepard
Flying Penguin Productions
The Studio, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh, Adelaide.
May 2 . Tickets $18 – $28.
Bookings BASS 131 246 or Venuetix 8255 8888
Until May 16.

Increasingly, it seems, professional theatre in Adelaide is looking to the efforts of dedicated individuals. With only the flagship State Theatre Company and a small and under-resourced scattering of second-tier outfits, the city has always depended on the kindness of free-lances. Significant among them has been David …

Assassins

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by John Weidman

Flying Penguin Productions

and Adelaide Festival Centre iNspace Program

The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia

December 7-15, 2007.

Directed by David Mealor

Music Director Matthew Carey

There have been four Australian productions of Assassins since it first opened Off-Broadway in 1990 and was remounted in London in 1992. And, of those, only two have been professional productions – the Melbourne Theatre Company version in 1995 and this, most …

2008

The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy

Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, conceived by Andy Packer

Slingsby Productions

The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre

January 24.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The summer season of young people’s theatre at the Festival Centre has provided a fine opportunity for Slingsby Productions to show their wares. Artistic Director Andy Packer sees his company’s brief as providing “emotionally complex and original stories” with high production values. He refers to Slingsby’s work as “theatrickery” – which is an …