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 …

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), …

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 …

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 …

Attention- Matthew Westwood/ Rosemary Sorensen
Reviews Editor, The Australian
September 18.
Adelaide

OzAsia Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 17- October 2.
Bookings : BASS 131 246

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
Yohangza Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
September 16.

Dialogue in Skin
Hands Percussion
Her Majesty’s Theatre
September 17.

Now in its fourth year, the Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, this time, has a focus on Korea. And the first weekend has opened auspiciously with the Yohangza Theatre Company’s …

July 22, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre

Superheroes
by Paulo Castro
Stone/Castro and Adelaide Festival Centre inSpace Program
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
July 21. Tickets  $ 17 – 26. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until July 24.
Melbourne season: Arts House Melbourne, August 11- 15.

Throughout time human beings have looked upwards for salvation. It is from the sky that they will come, whether they are signs and portents, angels and messiahs, the liberating jets – or superheroes. As someone says …

August 4, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

Fugitive
by Matthew Whittet
Windmill Theatre
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 3. Tickets $ 20 – 29. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 14.

In Fugitive, a lively, retro-futuristic version of the Robin Hood legend by Matthew Whittet, the man in tight jeans is spurred to rebellion by the death of a child. With assistance from an unidentified blaster device in his backpack, he and his Merry Crew seek righteous revenge. But, …