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January 21, 2013

The Best of 2012

Filed under: 2012,2013,Archive

Live performance is, by nature, ephemeral and, too quickly, excellent productions and outstanding performances drift into imperfect recollection and hearsay.

I want to thank all the companies and creatives who have invited me to performances in 2012 and to acknowledge your commitment and achievement.

It is always hard to create good work and these are especially difficult times in which to operate.

So much entertainment is now corporatized and commodified and the capacity and inclination of many audiences to engage …

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November 07, 2012

Stimulating without the wink-wink factor

November 7, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)
by Sarah Ruhl
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

November 7. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 24.

In the opening scene of In the Next Room, Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer-nominated play from 2009, the intrepid medical scientist, Dr Givings,  makes his confident diagnosis : “Mr Daldry, your wife is suffering from hysteria. It is a very clear …

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November 01, 2012

Endgame

November 1, 2012

Endgame

The Call
by Patricia Cornelius
Junglebean
The Bakehouse
October 27. Season: October 13 – 27, 2012.

Enterprising local company Junglebean, founded several years ago by recent AC Arts acting graduates Renee Gentle, Nic English and Tim Overton, have already  made their mark with productions of Neil Labute’s Autobahn and Jim Cartwright’s Two but it is their preference for Australian works that is especially refreshing. Recently they staged Adelaide director and writer, Michael Hill’s fine play Boxing

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Notes from Underground: Pornography

November 1, 2012

Notes from Underground

Pornography
by Simon Stephens
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 27.  Season October 18 – 27. 2012

On July 7th 2005 four young men, three of Pakistani descent, one Jamaican, all aged between 18 and 30, drove from Leeds down to Luton where they caught a train connecting to the London Underground into the city. At 8.50am, three of them triggered suicide bomb devices in their backpacks and caused mayhem …

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October 14, 2012

Blasted (Brief)

October 9, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Blasted
by Sarah Kane
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 35
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 13.

It is seventeen years since the twenty-something playwright, Sarah Kane detonated her play Blasted at London’s Royal Court Theatre. It caused an uproar then, and still disturbs and confronts even internet-jaded audiences now.

Director Netta Yashchin has a challenge with this unruly, iconoclastic text but with Wendy …

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Blasted (extended)

October 14, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Blasted
by Sarah Kane
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 35
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 13.

It was British critic, Alex Sierz who put a name to the angry, convulsive, confrontational new theatre emergent in the UK in the 1990’s. He called it “In-Yer-Face” theatre and it described, among many, the work of Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson and Sarah Kane. Except that her …

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September 24, 2012

Ibsen’s Peer Gynt

September 19, 2012
Adelaide

OzAsia Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 14 – 30.

Ibsen’s Peer Gynt
Adapted by Jung-Ung Yang
Yohangza Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse. September 19.
Tickets: $ 35- 40. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until September 21.

Now in its sixth year, the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia program has not only introduced some outstanding productions from the Asia Pacific region but established continuing links with individual companies. Prominent among them is the Yohangza Theatre Company from South Korea …

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August 27, 2012

Women of note sound warnings on division

August 21, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Top Girls
by Caryl Churchill
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 21. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until September 8.

It is almost thirty years to the day since Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s freewheeling play about class, gender and the rise of Thatcherism, first opened at London’s Royal Court – and the question is : how much have things changed and how much have they stayed …

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July 12, 2012

Pinocchio

July 12, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Pinocchio
Based on the books of Carlo Collodi
by Julianne O’Brien
Windmill Theatre and the State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 11. Tickets: $25 – $47.
Bookings BASS 131 246
Until July 28.
Malthouse Theatre Melbourne season
September 6 – 29.

First appearing in 1883 in the stories of Italian writer Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio, the mischievous wooden puppet who longs to become a real boy, has become a modern …

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June 19, 2012

Cabaret Festival 2012

Filed under: 2012,Archive,Cabaret

June 17, 2012

Cabaret Festival 2012
Adelaide Festival Centre
until June 23.

Zoe Keating
Artspace
June 9.

Misfit
Kim Smith
Artspace
June 10.
Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
June 22-24
Slide, Sydney, July 12.

Love-Song-Circus
Circa & Katie Noonan
Dunstan Playhouse
June 13.

What exactly is cabaret these days – café settings , intimate solo shows, songs by Weill or Brel or Cole Porter ? This year, Adelaide’s 12th Cabaret Festival has broken all box office estimates with a program by …

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