Billy Bragg
Dom Polski Centre
John Hammond
Tivoli Hotel
A lot has happened for Billy Bragg in the two years since he toured last. He has performed in the Soviet Union, toured the US with Michelle Shocked, and his latest album, Workers Playtime, has everywhere sold well at its user-friendly budget RRP.
It is only to be expected that the one-time busker and all-time prolo model would be smoother and more urbane this visit, presenting a set designed for …
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Doppio Teatro
Lion Theatre
As their name suggests, Doppio Teatro (Dual Theatre) is a bilingual theatre company with a single-minded commitment to the promotion and celebration of ltalo-Australian culture. Since its inception in 1983, Doppio has staged productions for the Festival Fringe, Piccolo Spoleto and Come Out as well as schools and Italian clubs in the metropolitan. area and regional centres.
Under the guidance of artistic directors, Christopher Bell and Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro has, with productions such as …
Continue Reading Back to top“We have retrieved a lot of necessary ground but nobody wants to know about that”
Leigh Warren, Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre
interviewed by Murray Bramwell
FUNDING cuts continue to loom for most performing companies in much the same way that Birnam Wood moved on Dunsinane, although, at the moment it seems to be the dance companies who are particularly vulnerable. Recently, Sydney’s Once Extra Company lost funds altogether while elsewhere, artistic differences are resulting in resignations and uncertainty. …
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by Bob Larbey
State Theatre Company
Playhouse
After two very successful stints in Sydney, the Northside Theatre production of A Month of Sundays is now opening the card for the State Theatre Company’s 1989 season. It is an astute choice because the play is so reassuringly conventional that it will please a wide audience but it still has substance enough for those who don’t need everything on the stage to have whiskers and a tail.
Playwright …
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Thebarton Theatre
UB40 have always been a very democratic band. Apart from taking their name from no less of a leveller than the English unemployment benefit application form and holding the thin multi-coloured line against the doughy racism of National Front skins and oi’s at the turn of the decade, UB40 have worked well as a unit. There have been no line-up changes since they began more than ten years ago, song royalties are credited to the whole band …
Continue Reading Back to topGay Film Week, which commences at Hindley Cinema 3 on February 17th, will showcase a season of recent international and Australian films. It has been sponsored by the AFI and is presented in Adelaide by the Media Resource Centre.
As organiser, John McConchie, explains, the films have been drawn from the National Film Theatre’s Gay Film Festival in London, which in turn, draws from festivals in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The selection he has made comes from the USA, …
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Space Cabaret Club, Adelaide Festival Centre
Wogs Out of Work is the brainchild of Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares and Maria Portesi. It began in Melbourne two years ago and has now played in ·most of the state capitals and regional centres. Gordon, the road sweeper ambles amiably through the crowd to begin a wog’s-eye-view monologue. The ethnic origin is undifferentiated Mediterranean and the comedy is as broad as the Parthenon. Gordon recalls his encounter at the …
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Wogs Out of Work
Her Majesty’s Theatre,
January, 1989.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Wogs Out of Work has been putting itself about for nearly four years now. Two separate companies with numerous cast reincarnations have presented more than 1,250 performances to an estimated 650,000 paying customers. Many of those people had never been to theatre in their lives and the bemused actors, most of them playing to their ethnic communities for the first time, expressed pride in the warmth …
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