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March 06, 2012

The Ham Funeral

Filed under: 2012,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

March 1 , 2012
Adelaide Festival
Theatre

The Ham Funeral
by Patrick White
State Theatre Company
Odeon Theatre, Queen Street
February 27. Tickets $ 25 – $ 59
Bookings : BASS 131 246 or Adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 18

For his 2012 Festival production, State Theatre’s departing artistic director, Adam Cook has shown an astute sense of occasion. Not only is this year the centenary of Patrick White’s birth but it is just over fifty years since the programming of The …

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Malmo

Filed under: 2012,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

February 29, 2012
Adelaide Festival

Malmo
Torque Show
Presented by Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
in association with Adelaide Festival
Waterside, Port Adelaide.
February 28. Tickets : $ 25 – $35
Bookings: BASS 131 246, adelaidefestival.com.au
Until March 4.

“This is not a house, it’s a machine for living” the bright young couple exults, “It is a 3D mirror of who you are.” Malmo, a dance theatre work devised by performers Vincent Crowley and Ingrid Weisfelt, along with director Ross Ganf, takes …

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November 21, 2011

The Dead Ones

Filed under: 2011,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

November 21 , 2011
Feast Festival
Adelaide
Theatre

The Dead Ones
by Margie Fischer
Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
Higher Ground, Light Square, Adelaide.
November 20 . Tickets $15- $20
Bookings : Ph.08 84630684
Until November 26.

What are memories when there is no one left to share them ? What are the traces of a family when there is no-one to identify the people in the photograph or recognize a favourite book or chair ? In The Dead Ones , theatre …

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November 06, 2011

Womad Earth Station

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Womadelaide

Adelaide
October 24

Womad Earth Station
Long Gully, Belair National Park, Adelaide
October 21-23.

When, back in March 1992, Adelaide Festival director Rob Brookman was launching his first ever Womad event, he had intended that it be held in Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills. Severe seasonal fire danger alerts put paid to that plan and, at the last minute, everything re-located to Botanic Park in the CBD where Womadelaide has been a great biennial, and now annual, success …

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Holding the Man

Filed under: 2011,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

October 25, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Holding the Man
by Tommy Murphy
from the book by Timothy Conigrave
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 25 . Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 13.

As anyone who knows footy will tell you, holding the man is not just against the rules, but against Australian Rules. Timothy Conigrave’s 1995 memoir, Holding the Man, about his fifteen year gay relationship with his …

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October 20, 2011

That Face

Filed under: 2011,Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

September 23, 2011
Adelaide Theatre
BRIEF

That Face
By Polly Stenham
five.point.one
Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
September 22. Wednesday to Saturday until October 8.
Tickets: $12 – $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com
Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505.

UK playwright Polly Stenham was just nineteen when That Face premiered at London’s Royal Court in 2007 and it was a startling debut. Bright young Adelaide independents five.point.one have shown that its grim, sometimes macabrely comic take on middle class neglect …

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Jack’s back with a whisper and cheers

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Music

October 4, 2011

Adelaide
Music

John Farnham
Whispering Jack…25 years on

Adelaide Entertainment Centre
October 4. Tickets: $99 – $ 149. Bookings Ticketek 132 849
Until October 8.
Sydney: State Theatre. October 11-22.
Bookings Ticketmaster 1300 139 588
Brisbane: Lyric Theatre QPAC. November 1-6
Bookings 136 246
Melbourne: Palais Theatre . November 9-19
Bookings: Ticketmaster 136 100
Perth: Burswood Theatre. November 22-26
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849

In just two weeks time, John Farnham celebrates, to the day, the 25th anniversary …

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October 01, 2011

Ghosts

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Nicki Bloom
State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
October 13

Of all of Ibsen’s plays Ghosts is the most startling and most intriguing. Written after A Doll’s House, it drew acrimony even from his admirers, sales of its first print run were disastrous, and theatre producers across Europe were fearful to stage it At the same time , young actors organised secret readings, attracting intense and defiant audiences eager to read a play prepared …

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September 19, 2011

Rhinoceros in Love

Filed under: 2011,Archive,International,Theatre

September 18, 2011
Adelaide

OzAsia Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 2-17.

Rhinoceros in Love
by Yimei Liao
National Theatre of China
Her Majesty’s
September 15.
Brisbane Festival
Powerhouse September 21-24.
Melbourne Festival, The Arts Centre Playhouse
October 6-9.

The OzAsia festival this year has had a special emphasis on bright young Asian culture with music popster Shugo Tokumaru, ska band Cool Wise Man, Japanese female DJ Likkle Mai, and mime performers CAVA. Also, in theatre, it has showcased Rhinoceros in …

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Buried Child

Filed under: 2011,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

September 13, 2011
Adelaide
Theatre

Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 13 . Tickets $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 2.

When we enter the ruined farmhouse of Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer prize winning play Buried Child we go through a familiar portal in American writing. This mix of realism and the grotesque, of Greek tragedy and grim comedy, is the territory of Eugene …

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