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January 01, 1987

Playing About

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Wild Honey, State Theatre Company
Those Dear Departed, Stage Company
Stitch in Time, Vitalstatistix
Bazaar and Rummage, Red Shed Company

The State Theatre Company’s final production for 1987 is Michael Frayn’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Wild Honey, directed by Aubrey Mellor. The ur-manuscript of Wild Honey aka Platonov aka A Country Scandal languished in a bank deposit box in Moscow until 1920 before being dusted off and whipped into various shapes by various translators.

Frayn has taken bold …

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Prize Pumpkins

Filed under: Archive,Books

Prize Pumpkins
An Inflection of Silence and Other Poems
Edited by Christopher Pollnitz
University of Newcastle Press

The viewless wings of poesy were never anybody’s idea of the way to make money. The rewards for writing poetry must certainly be in heaven because they are mighty scarce on earth. Writers may get grants and free board and lodging in universities from time to time but that is about the size of it.

So when poetry prizes are offered worth several …

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Foote and Mouth

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

A Smile , A Song and a Lump of Wood
Anthony Ackroyd and Geoff Kelso.
Club Foote.

Adelaide has been treated to some great cabaret lately and Anthony Ackroyd and Geoff Kelso’s A Smile, A Song and a Lump of Wood is a good indication that Club Foote in particular has been presenting entertainment of a high caliper. After an agreeable meal at Quiet Waters, with which the club has been making regular dinner deals, we walked with Club Footemen, …

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