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March 12, 2011

City with the Fringe comes out on top

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Fringe

March 12, 2011
Adelaide
2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13

After more than three frenetic weeks of activity the Adelaide Fringe has come to a close, leaving the hundreds of artists and supporters to reflect on their fortunes, both creative and financial. With an uncurated smorgasbord of 759 events (405 of them Australian premieres) audiences have had a busy job finding the truffles. According to Fringe Director Greg Clarke, 2011 has even surpassed last year’s box office total …

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February 27, 2011

Satire driven by comic gusto

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

2011
February 24
Adelaide
Theatre

Moliere’s The Misanthrope
In a version by Martin Crimp
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
February 22. Tickets  $ 29 – $59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until March 13.

We know that classics often improve with time, their insights and observations becoming more apt. But up-dated adaptations can often have a more butterfly-like lifespan. Happily, this is not so with UK playwright, Martin Crimp’s astute, deftly-rhymed translation of Moliere’s The …

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Fringe-worthy fun that’s passing strange

Filed under: 2011,Archive,Fringe

2011
February 25
Adelaide

2011 Adelaide Fringe
February 18 – March 13
Bookings : FringeTIX – 1300 FRINGE (1300 374 643)

The 2011 Adelaide Fringe program is again bulging with events – not quite 200 in cabaret and  theatre, and more than 200 comedy acts  – some 750 in all.

The UK theatre invasion has begun winningly at Holden Street Theatres with Bound, Bear Trap Theatre’s saga of a North Sea fishing boat. Written by Jesse Briton, and performed …

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December 03, 2010

They’ve got the world on six strings

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

November 27, 2010
Adelaide

Adelaide International Guitar Festival
November 25 – 28

The Heart of Flamenco :
Pepe de Lucia, Oscar Guzman
Roshanne Wijeyeratne
Arte Kanela
Festival Theatre
November 25.

Other Wordly Sounds:
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dhafer Youssef
Richard Bona Group
Festival Theatre
November 26.

Adelaide Festival Centre.

The Adelaide International Guitar Festival has had a fretful history. Based on the New York Guitar Festival it began in 2007 as a ten day event with an almost bewildering range of marvelous …

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November 05, 2010

Adelaide Theatre – The Give and Take

Filed under: 2010,Archive

November 3, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

BRIEF
The Give and Take
by Tony McNamara
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 1. Tickets $ 29 – $ 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until November 21.

Who says money can’t buy you love ? When hassled executive Don Locke (the amusingly downbeat George Kapiniaris) finds himself locked into to work (selling lawn products) and locked out of his family ( three ingrate young adults still dependent …

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October 23, 2010

Vitalstatistix & The Misery Children

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Theatre

October 20, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre
Ruby Bruise
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
Vitalstatistix & The Misery Children
Waterside Workers Hall, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide.
October 20. Tickets  $18 – $25.
Bookings at BASS telephone 131246 or bass.net.au
Until October 30.

Ruby Bruise is so full of life and its various experiences that it takes four actors to tell her story. Fin Kruckemeyer’s hypermanic text takes her from birth to 39 in a zany, intense, often troubled series of women’s rites and …

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October 15, 2010

Adelaide Theatre – Blackbird

Filed under: 2010,Archive

October 23, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre
BRIEF

Blackbird
by David Harrower
Flying Penguin Productions
and Adelaide Festival Centre inSpace Program
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
October 22. Tickets $19.95 – $34.
Bookings at BASS telephone 131246 or bass.net.au
Until October 30.
Award-winning UK playwright David Harrower is well-named – because his 2005 two-hander Blackbird is certainly a harrowing experience. Una (Ksenja Logos), a young woman in her late 20s arrives late in the afternoon at the workplace of Peter (Terence Crawford), …

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September 22, 2010

God of Carnage

Filed under: 2010,Archive

September 21, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

God of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September 21. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 10.  South Australian Regional Tour: October 12 -23.

The  film-maker Luis Bunuel memorably satirised the discreet charm of the bourgeoise and, this century, French playwright Yasmina Reza has found considerable success in showing audiences that the middle classes are neither …

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September 19, 2010

Through the unknown, remembered gate

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Books

South-West of Eden
A Memoir 1932
By C.K. Stead
University of Auckland Press
RRP $ 45.
ISBN 9781869404543

It was T.S. Eliot who wrote, in “East Coker” – “In my beginning is my end.” In a quite different, earlier poem, he produced the variant line – “our beginnings never know our ends”, adding the notion of intention to that of destination in the word “end”. In South-West of Eden, C.K. Stead’s richly textured meditation on the first 23 – …

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Harbinger

Filed under: 2010,Archive

August 31, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

BRIEF
Harbinger
by Matthew Whittet
Brink Productions
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 31. Tickets  $ 26.95 – 54. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until September 11.

When Chris, a young man minding his own business (Nathan O’Keefe) , happens upon Maddy, a late-teens uni student with blood gushing from her neck (Yael Stone) , Matthew Whittet’s gen-X comedy drama, Harbinger foreshadows scary monsters before dawn’s early light.

Since Trueblood we have known that vampires …

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