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August 26, 1989

Home Truths on the Range

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

1989

Lost Weekend by John Romeril

State Theatre Company

The Space, Adelaide.

August, 1989.

A new work by John Romeril is always worth a look  and his latest for South Australia’s State Theatre Company is no exception. Lost Weekend is a quirky piece though, and neither its co-directors John Gaden and Ian Watson nor some of the performers seem to have quite got its measure. Even Romeril doesn’t seem to have decided how his ingredients should finally shake down. Perhaps …

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August 04, 1989

Streetwise

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

1989

Road

by Jim Cartwright

Red Shed Company

Adelaide

With their latest production, Road, the Red Shed Company further consolidate their claim as Adelaide’s pre-eminent alternative theatre group. In little more than three years they have produced a creditable range of works – some devised by company members, others, like their current production, intelligent choices from the progressive repertoire.

First performed at the Royal Court in London in 1986, Jim Cartwright’s Road played widely in the provinces and has now …

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August 01, 1989

Professional Foul

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Top Silk
by David Williamson
Playhouse ·

According to David Williamson, barristers are better value than the Tooth Fairy. There’s nothing that their silky talents can’t achieve. If you are a media tycoon these scriveners can get around the anti~ Trust laws, they can also help out when you get caught with more than a recreational amount of an illegal substance. Then, when they’ve done that, they’ll be your next Premier. That is, if they can be bothered.

In recent …

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