2004

Adelaide
Music Theatre

HMS Pinafore
WS.Gilbert and A. Sullivan
Carl Rosa Company
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide.

4 November, 2004
Tickets $ 49 – $ 79
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 7 November, 2004

Murray Bramwell

The Carl Rosa Opera Company occupied a distinguished part of English operatic history  from its establishment in 1873 through to the late 1950s. It presented the first English productions of Carmen, Lohengrin and Aida and would have staged the works of Gilbert and Sullivan had …

2004
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An Evening With Queen Victoria
Prunella Scales

Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
1 November, 2004
Tickets $ 40 – $ 69.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 3 November.

Melbourne
The Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
6 -7 November, 2004

Geelong
Ford Theatre
9 November, 2004

Cairns
Civic Theatre
23 -24 November, 2004

Townsville
Civic Theatre
25 November, 2004

Rockhampton
Pilbeam Theatre
26 November, 2004

Canberra
The Playhouse
29 30 November, 2004

Albury
Performing Arts centre
1 December, 2004…

2004

Vanishing Point
Compagnie Philippe Genty

Her Majesty’s
September, 2004.

Murray Bramwell

It is startling to think that Philippe Genty has been performing in Australia for more than thirty years. His company featured at the Festival in 1978 and again in Adelaide in 1996, when, in collaboration with Australian artists, they generated a new work, Stowaways. Genty has had a long association with this country and, for many in the audience, his blend of illusion and movement has been their …

Talking Heads
by Alan Bennett
Her Majesty’s

Murray Bramwell

Originally, there were six Talking Heads in Alan Bennett’s splendid set of monologues written for BBC Television and broadcast in 1989. Featuring some of the best actors in the UK – Julie Walters, Thora Hird , Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole and Maggie Smith – they were a great success. Several selections were subsequently staged in 1992 directed  by Bennett himself. He then took a further production to the Chichester Festival in …

2003.

Adelaide

Theatre

Marcel Marceau

Her Majesty’s Theatre

Adelaide until 1 November.

5 November, Canberra Theatre Centre

Bookings : Canberra Ticketing  02 6275 2700

7 November, Regal Theatre, Perth.

Bookings : BOCS Ticketing 08 9484 1133

11- 12 November, Her Majesty’s Theatre,  Melbourne.

Bookings : Ticketek 132 849

15 November, State Theatre Sydney

Bookings: Ticketek 132 849

Tickets : (Adelaide)  $ 52 – $72

Murray Bramwell

When asked recently why mime had gone out of fashion, Marcel Marceau replied briskly …

2003

Nixon’s Nixon
by Russell Lees

P&S Productions
in association with Arts Projects Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, March 2003

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Much of what I know about Richard Milhous Nixon came from the unbiased testimony of Hunter S. Thompson. Throughout the Watergate hearings in 1973 he reported for Rolling Stone, despatching down his infamous mojo wire the most scabrous accounts of the disgraced president which were duly published alongside exhilaratingly vehement illustrations by Ralph Steadman.

Nixon was fair game. …

Three Arts Projects

3 Dark Tales
Theatre O
Scott Theatre

Kayassine
Les Arts Sauts
Torrens Parade Ground

Hopeless Games
fabrik Potsdam & DO Theatre
Union Hall

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Theatre O from the UK is a hypermobile company which uses the signature performance techniques of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Their Edinburgh Festival hit, 3 Dark Tales is one of three international productions being offered in the Adelaide Fringe program by Arts Projects Australia.

Using two heavy costume racks, …

2001

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Come Out is back for its  biennial best and Artistic Director, Catherine Carter has put together the sort of program we have come to expect – school outreach activities, the Friday street parade, indigenous events, comedy workshops, the Allwrite literature festival and a diverse range of international, national and local theatre.

Belvoir Company B brings to the Playhouse Neil Armfield’s restaging of  David Holman’s The Small Poppies. First commissioned in 1986 by then Magpie director, …

Saltimbanco
Cirque du Soleil
Ellis Park

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is called the Grand Chapiteau and massive it certainly is. With its turrets, minarets and domes the massive $18m travelling venue for Cirque du Soleil is a show in itself. Almost phosphorescently white it is a formidable feat of engineering. And it can hardly be accidental that it resembles Fantasyland, which as all mouseketeers would know, is the happiest land of them all.

With seven different entertainments currently on …