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August 15, 2010

Romeo & Juliet

Filed under: 2010,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

August 10, 2010

Adelaide
Theatre

Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Nikki Bloom and Geordie Brookman

State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
August 10. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until August 29.

In their sharply imagined and theatrically absorbing re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, writer Nikki Bloom and director Geordie Brookman,  remind us that the play itself opens with declarations of its lamentable ending. There is no …

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July 15, 2010

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Filed under: 2010,Archive

July 6, 2010
Adelaide
Theatre

Entertaining Mr Sloane
by Joe Orton
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
July 6. Tickets $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until July 25.

When the famous playwright Terence Rattigan saw Entertaining Mr Sloane in its first season in London in May, 1964, he described it as the best first play he had seen in “thirty odd years”.  The prodigious fluency of Joe Orton’s grim three act …

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June 26, 2010

Campbell’s Cabaret ends with a bang

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Cabaret

June 26, 2010

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2010
until June 26.

Stephen Schwartz and Friends
June 23.

Newley Discovered
Hugh Sheridan
June 24

Caroline O’Connor: A Musical Life
June 26

Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre.

The tenth Adelaide Cabaret Festival has closed on some high notes and some big numbers. In his second year as Artistic Director David Campbell has further boosted the reputation and the reach of this highly successful winter solstice event. With record attendances and sell-out shows, it …

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June 19, 2010

Godot Calling

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Interviews

June, 2010

Actor Roger Rees talks to Murray Bramwell about  his current role  in the touring Theatre Royal Haymarket production of Waiting for Godot.

In the three and a half weeks between the end of the London season of Waiting For Godot and beginning previews in Melbourne, where I spoke to him by phone, Welsh-born, US- based actor, Roger Rees has been working his way around the world.

“I’ve come straight from Canada, “ he explains, “I have been …

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June 01, 2010

Almost Coolsville

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

June 1, 2010

Rickie Lee Jones
Her Majesty’s
June 1.

When it was released, in 1979, the debut album from Rickie Lee Jones seemed to have everything.  Produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman when Warner Brothers was at the height of its patronage and creativity, it included  a line-up of the hottest session musicians of the day – among them Dr John, Tom Scott, Andy Newmark, even – on synthesizer – Randy Newman. It was an auspicious event. Those …

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May 22, 2010

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: 2010,Archive

May 22, 2010

The Seven Stages of Grieving
by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman
State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
May 22. . Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 29.  SA regional tour until June 17.

The Share
by Daniel Keene
five.point.one
The Bakehouse, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide
May 20. Tickets $ 20 – 25. Bookings : ph 8227 0505
Until June 5.

In the State Theatre Company revival …

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May 06, 2010

An Actor Prepares

Filed under: 2010,Archive

May 2010

Adelaide Theatre

Carmel Johnson talks with Murray Bramwell about her part in State Theatre Company’s current production of Arthur Miller’s The Price.

It has been a busy time for Carmel Johnson. One of Adelaide’s most respected and versatile actresses, she has been on a two year roller-coaster with Brink Productions’ staging of Andrew Bovell’s hit play When the Rain Stops Falling. Opening at the 2008 Adelaide Festival the production has had seasons in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra …

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April 29, 2010

The Price

Filed under: 2010,Archive

April 29, 2010
Adelaide Theatre

The Price
By Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
April 28. Tickets  $ 29 – 59. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until May 16.

Murray Bramwell

In an interview, for BBC television in 1987, Arthur Miller said that his plays were about the birds coming home to roost. They might think they are flying around free, he explained, but, sooner or later, one by one they would land …

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March 29, 2010

Stratospheric

Filed under: 2010,Archive,Music

2010

Stratospheric

Jeff Beck

Her Majesty’s

Adelaide

March 25, 2010

Murray Bramwell

What is it about The Yardbirds ?  There was definitely something in the water in 1965. Three guitarists and three legends.  First, Eric Clapton, aka God, who soon left for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and a career via Cream, the Dominos, and then as a bandleader defining blues rock guitar for a long, lucrative, and sometimes repetitive, career. Later, there was Jimmy Page, who as the chords, riff and …

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March 18, 2010

Adelaide Festival Theatre

Filed under: 2010,Archive

The Sound and the Fury
(April Seventh, 1928)
Text by William Faulkner
Elevator Repair Service
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre .
March 11, 2010

Ngurrumilmarrmiriyu (Wrong Skin)
Written by Nigel Jamieson in association with Joshua Bond,
the community and elders of Elcho Island and The Chooky Dancers.
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide. March 12, 2010

The American novelist William Faulkner took the title of his 1929 masterwork from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, …

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