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March 23, 1990

Kahlo is the Thematic Centrepiece

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

1990 Festival
Visual Arts

Festival Exhibitions
Visions, Maps and Dreamings
Frida Kahlo

The visual arts exhibitions have always been a big draw for the Adelaide Festival and this year’s are no exception. There are differences this time, though, which are likely to set patterns for the future. Firstly, the festival organisers themselves have initiated exhibitions and taken care to incorporate themes in the overall programme.

Daniel Thomas, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, is well pleased with this …

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March 01, 1990

Off the Rails

Filed under: Archive,Festival

A Matter of Chance
The Kosh
Odeon Theatre

The most decisive events often depend on the slightest chances, the longest coincidences, the merest whims. Vladimir Nabokov, master of pale ironies and constructor of crystalline prose, wrote A Matter of Chance in 1924. It concerns a Russian emigre couple, separated by circumstances, who, unknown to each other, are both travelling on the Berlin-Paris Express.

The woman, neurasthenic with hunger and anxiety, has been following various leads in the hope of being …

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Adelaide Fringe

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

1990

Found Objects

Lion Theatre

Until March 11.

4 Stars.  “Definitely take the plunge- endearingly funny.”

Found Objects are the unrivalled exponents of wet comedy and in their latest show, Plunge, these three stooges remind us what it’s like to be nerds at the beach. What’s more, they sing-  “My Grandmother is a Fuddy Duddy” and  their  dolphin tribute “We Are the Hippies of the Sea” accompanied on guitar , trombone and  pan pipes.

They are also big on props- …

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