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February 26, 2025

Preview Interview: WOMADelaide 2025

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Music,Womadelaide

Adelaide Festival

Music

Preview Interview WOMADelaide 2025

Now one of Australia’s most durable outdoor festivals, WOMADelaide prepares for another four day event featuring music and performances that are, you might say, out of this World. Associate Director, Annette Tripodi talks about the line-up for 2025.

Written by Murray Bramwell

WOMADelaide, with its rather odd portmanteau name, has become a very familiar fixture in Botanic Park in the second weekend in March. This year will be its 28th iteration and …

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February 20, 2025

Fringe: Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Ar** For England

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Fringe,International,Theatre

Adelaide Fringe

Theatre: Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Ar** For England

In a frenetic, perceptive, often brilliant sixty minutes, writer and performer Alex Hill explores the agonies, ecstasies and desperate endgames of a London football fanatic.

Written by Murray Bramwell

Bursting into the confines of the Holden Street Studio comes Billy. Amped up, dressed in his national team’s strip, he is ready for battle – for England, St George, and Harry Maguire. So ready, in fact, that in …

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Fringe: Shellshocked

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Fringe,International,Theatre

Adelaide Fringe

Theatre: Shellshocked

This excellent new English play from the Edinburgh Fringe, written and directed by Philip Stokes and featuring his son Jack Stokes, is an intriguing and disconcerting meeting of damaged minds.

Written by Murray Bramwell

The scene is an artist’s studio. There is a large blank easel in the centre of the stage with paint-spattered tarps suspended behind it. There is a desk with drawers and, beside a well-used drinks cabinet, stands a disheveled man – bearded, …

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Fringe: Dear Diary

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Fringe,Interstate,Theatre

Adelaide Fringe

Theatre: Dear Diary

A diary from a younger self is explored and reinterpreted in storytelling and song. It is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Written by Murray Bramwell

“My name is Kay (says Kay Proudlove) and I want to tell you a story.” And it is a beguiling, pensive and candid one. Dear Diary is a history -or rather, a herstory – based on a relic from the turn of the century, her …

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February 12, 2025

Theatre: Housework

Filed under: 2025,Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

In Housework, a droll new play from State Theatre Company, we are invited behind closed Parliamentary doors to glimpse the best that is aspired to – and, funnily enough, quite a bit that falls well short.

Written by Murray Bramwell

In a recent interview Emily Steel describes her wittily-named parliamentary drama, Housework – “I guess what this play is about is who is getting into these positions of power ? What does it cost them ? How much should …

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December 12, 2024

The Best of 2024

Filed under: 2024,2025,Archive

As I look over my year’s attendances, I saw less of the festivals – the Cabaret Festival, Fringe Festival and OzAsia in particular. State Theatre Company South Australia had a less impressive year than in 2023 but we owe much to Mitchell Butel for bringing such energy, generosity and variety in his six years as State Theatre’s AD. We wish him well in his new lead role at Sydney Theatre Company.

The second-tier independents remained quiet. Brink produced works under …

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