Allo, Allo, Allo
An Inspector Calls
by J.B. Priestley

Royal National Theatre of Great Britain
Her Majesty’s

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

For some time now there have been intimations that an Inspector would be calling. Those who first saw the Royal National Theatre’s 1992 London revival of the J.B Priestley country house detective mystery reported back to the colonies that this fusty old chestnut had been given a startling new shine. The expressionist treatment, the assured direction from Stephen Daldry …

1994

Jim Rose Circus Sideshow

Old Lion

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

O Rose, thou art sick. Blake didn’t know the half of it. From Seattle, Washington, grunge mecca of the New World, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow returned to Sunday night Adelaide to bring worms visible and invisible from his garden of unearthly delights. Too big for Heaven this time, Jim packed us into the Old Lion for the gawp of our lives. Looking around we looked normal enough. People …

1994

Van Gogh:

His Sources, Genius and Influence

National Gallery of Victoria

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is not only in Aprill with his shoures soote. Even on the twelfth day of Christmas are folk likely to climb on night buses and goon on pilgrimages. But sacred journeys have always been a bit of a punt. Will the weather hold and the travel be safe ? Will the pitch be in good order after the Madonna concert ? Will the …

Fallen Angels
by Noel Coward
Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills

Festival Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

When it was suggested to him that his new play Fallen Angels was indecent Noel Coward replied- “The realisation that I am hopelessly depraved, vicious and decadent has for two days ruined my beaker of opium.” I have to say that the recent revival of this trifle from 1925 has ruined mine also.

Possibly someone browsing through the play fastened on the idea that …