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October 01, 1988

Eminence Greasy

Filed under: Archive,Current,Interviews,Music

Murray Bramwell talks to Doug Thomas about The Greasy Pop Empire.

Doug Thomas is about to move into the middle-sized big time. He hopes. After eight years his independent record label, Greasy Pop

(which has released nearly fifty catalogue items – more than 70,000 singles, albums and cassettes – to the perimeters of the known world) has signed a pressing, promotion and distribution deal with Festival Records. The idea is to get that company’s considerable promotional resources behind two Adelaide …

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Fragile Eggshell Mind

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

Flacco
Paul Livingstone
Club Foote

A heavily padded overcoat walks into the spotlight. Gradually a small pale pate appears above the collar, two piercing eyes sweep the room. A pair of binoculars extends from the lower reaches of the coat and continues the surveillance. Then, although not convinced it is safe to, the inhabitant bursts free of the coat and there, in a black leotard with a Union flag loincloth tied to an animal pelt that looks like it has …

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The New Dreaming

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Festival,Interviews,Theatre

The New Dreaming
Come Out 89

Murray Bramwell talks with Michael Fitzgerald.

Since it began as a row of tents in the Adelaide Parklands in 1974, Come Out has become a major youth arts festival virtually unrivalled in the world. Its reputation for quality, diversity and the sheer scale of its mobilisation is a credit to the energy and commitment of a succession of directors and administrators and an army of teachers and arts workers. Come Out has continued to …

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Stages

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Seagull
Anton Chekhov
Directed by Aubrey Mellor
State Theatre Company
Playhouse.

The question of whether Chekhov’s drama is comic or tragic has become a hoary one. But it is nevertheless important. In not quite a hundred years critical opinion has run from one side of the boat to the other. In his influential Moscow Art Theatre productions, Stanislavsky- systematically curbed Chekhov’s absurdist, comic exuberance creating a definitive somewhat po-faced, house style.

More recently, commentators have argued that Chekhov is actually …

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