1990

Murray Bramwell talks with the State Theatre Company’s Simon Philips about their latest production, The Comedy of Errors, which opens next Saturday.

Simon Phillips is in rehearsal mode. It is well after six o’clock and the afternoon session has only just finished. Wandering barefoot back to his office for the interview, Phillips is looking weary. Gradually as actors begin appearing, it dawns on him that there is another rehearsal set for seven. A less genial soul might have got …

1990

Actor and Director, Gavin Richards, currently in Adelaide with the popular comedy show Allo Allo, talks to Murray Bramwell about Alternative Theatre in the UK- where it has been and how it responds to a changed society.

Actors in television often seem to come out of nowhere, magically discovered and hurled into prominence, but this is rarely true. Take Gavin Richards for instance. He is a household name as the amorous Italian Captain in Allo Allo, the old-style Perry …

Gay Film Week, which commences at Hindley Cinema 3 on February 17th, will showcase a season of recent international and Australian films. It has been sponsored by the AFI and is presented in Adelaide by the Media Resource Centre.

As organiser, John McConchie, explains, the films have been drawn from the National Film Theatre’s Gay Film Festival in London, which in turn, draws from festivals in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The selection he has made comes from the USA, …