… Continue Reading Back to topDear Sir, While brevity is the soul of wit, I did not intend my review of the State Theatre Company’s Month of Sundays (Age Old Questions, March AR) to be quite that witty.
It would seem that there are times when even FAX fux up and this was one of them. A page of copy went missing in transmission and with it honourable mention of performances by actors Ron Haddrick, Brian James, Diane Smith and Carol Skinner in particular, as
January 01, 1988
Fooling with Lear
Dreamtime
Away
by Michael Gow
State Theatre Company
Playhouse
The State Theatre Company and director Aubrey Mellor have concluded another season with a strong production. But although done with flair last year’s Wild Honey was really just tizzied up minor Chekhov. This year’s work is a new Australian play of some distinction.
Away has been widely performed in the past two years – there have been three separate productions in the last month alone. Such fulsome attention might prove daunting for …
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Elvis Costello and the Confederates
Thebarton Theatre
In his warm-up set Nick Lowe, King of the rockpile, warned that Elvis Costello’s concert in Adelaide would be no ordinary gig. After months on the road from Atlanta, Georgia through Europe, Japan and Australia, Adelaide was the band’s last stop before heading, variously, home.
Lowe obliged with a modest draught of his bubbly pop – Cruel to be Kind, Without Love and, befitting an erstwhile son-in-law of Johnny Cash, he …
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