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February 25, 2014

Music World

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Music,Theatre,Womadelaide

Murray Bramwell previews a selection of the singers and sounds from Womadelaide 2014, opening March 7 to 11. Botanic Park, Adelaide.

For more than twenty years the first week in March in Adelaide has heralded, not just the Festival and Fringe, but Womadelaide, the enduringly popular music event with the portmanteau name that is both a local and national institution. First staged in 1992, under the wing of Rob Brookman’s Festival, Peter Gabriel’s UK concert venture Womad (that’s acronym for …

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Over a century later Chekhov still delights

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Festival,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Seagull
By Anton Chekhov
Adaptation by Hilary Bell
State Theatre Company.
The State Theatre Company Scenic Workshop,
Adelaide Festival Centre.
Duration 2 hours 20 minutes
February 25. Tickets $ 26 – $ 67
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 16.

In a letter, written in 1895, to his friend Suvorin, Anton Chekhov described his new play The Seagull : “It’s a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape …

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February 21, 2014

Carnival transforms the city and there are plenty of Fringe benefits

Filed under: 2014,Archive,Fringe

Adelaide Fringe 2014
February 14 – March 16

The voluminous Adelaide Fringe opened last Friday. Defying recent torrential rain large crowds lined the streets for the night parade of performers and floats including a luminous disco cuttlefish. With a record 978 shows, including 473 Australian premieres, and box office at record levels, this vast, uncurated festival, second only to the Edinburgh extravaganza, transforms the Adelaide CBD into carnival.

New this year is the raffishly named Royal Croquet Club celebrating the …

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February 19, 2014

Festival Trifecta

Filed under: 2014,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Murray Bramwell talks with Rosemary Myers about Windmill Theatre’s program of new work and revivals in the Adelaide Festival.

If you look under “Our Claims to Fame’ on Adelaide’s Windmill Theatre’s website there is a list of awards and nominations the company has received over the past five years – and it is astonishing. Last year alone, for their hit show School Dance, there were six Helpmann nominations (including two winners –Best Presentation for Children and Best Supporting Actor …

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January 01, 2014

The Best of 2013

Filed under: 2013,2014,Archive

Live performances have their seasons and then are gone : sometimes they remain vivid, but often, excellent productions and outstanding performances drift into imperfect recollection and hearsay. I hope this website, for all its sometimes unwelcome opinions, is a useful record of some of the notable activity in Adelaide this year.

I want to thank all the companies and creatives who have invited me to performances in 2013 and to acknowledge your continuing commitment and achievement.

Looking back on my …

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