UB40
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, …
Continue Reading Back to topWogs Out of Work
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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