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June 17, 2011

Molly’s Shoes

Filed under: 2011,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

May 20, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

Molly’s Shoes
by Alex Vickery-Howe
Accidental Productions
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
May 19. Wednesday to Saturday until June 4.
Tickets: $16 – $23. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

Enterprising independents Accidental Productions have taken an impressive next step
with Molly’s Shoes, a lively new work from Adelaide playwright Alex Vickery-Howe.
Undergraduates David (Tim Smith) and Elspeth (Rachel Jones) are challenged by fearless
physics professor Molly Taffy (Katie O’Reilly). …

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May 05, 2011

Out and About

Filed under: 2011,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

May 5, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

The Eisteddfod
by Lally Katz
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
April 30. Wednesday to Saturday until May 14.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

In The Eisteddfod, a strange sixty minute suburban fable by prolific Melbourne playwright, Lally Katz, the now grown-up siblings, Abalone and Gerture (Brad Williams and Kate Roxby) live in a Hansel and Gretel world of anxiety, regression and play acting. Family …

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February 20, 2010

Death and Delusions

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
State Theatre Company of SA
Dunstan Playhouse. August 4

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere, adapted by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
The Space. August 5

Arabian Night
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Accidental Productions
The Bakehouse. August 13

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A death in the family is not only a time of sadness, it also brings together friends, relatives, estranged siblings and blasts from the past. Old griefs  join new ones, past memories are not only …

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October 31, 2009

BRIEF

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2009

BRIEF

The Under Room

by Edward Bond

five.point.one

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 …

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August 05, 2009

Well enough to work magic

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

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 …

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August 04, 2009

Death and Delusions

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

The Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
State Theatre Company of SA
Dunstan Playhouse. August 4

The Hypochondriac
by Moliere, adapted by Paul Galloway
Brink Productions
The Space. August 5

Arabian Night
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Accidental Productions
The Bakehouse. August 13

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A death in the family is not only a time of sadness, it also brings together friends, relatives, estranged siblings and blasts from the past. Old griefs join new ones, past memories are not only …

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August 01, 2009

Parallel Worlds

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

The Wizard of Oz
By L.Frank Baum
Windmill
Dunstan Playhouse, June 30.

Mnemonic
Conceived by Simon McBurney and Devised by Complicite
State Theatre Company of South Australia
In association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE Program
Space Theatre, July 2 .

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Nothing can quite match The Wizard of Oz. Ever since Judy Garland, as Dorothy, was spun from black and white Kansas into the dazzling lolly- coloured world of Oz in the 1939 MGM film version, …

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June 30, 2009

Modern take on a timeless tale sure to bring the house down

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

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 …

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June 01, 2009

Phases and Stages

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Murray Bramwell surveys theatre during The Adelaide Review’s quarter century.

With the Adelaide Review celebrating 25 years publication earlier this year it is a good time, in the immortal words of Dame Edna Everage, to look back retrospectively. In 1984 the two strands of theatre in Adelaide – amateur and professional – were , and still are , recognisably evident . The Adelaide Rep was the stalwart it remains, as were the Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Therry,
Matt Byrne Productions, …

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May 02, 2009

Brothers and other strangers

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

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 …

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