1990
Marianne Faithfull
with Barry Reynolds
Old Lion, June 1990
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
I bought my first Marianne Faithfull LP. in 1964. I’d gone to the shop to buy the Stones’ Aftermath and somehow got distracted by As Tears Go By. It was a pretty feeble album really – breathless, nylon-string folk songs with recitations of Full Fathom Five and Jabberwocky to fill up the second side – but I had made a choice for Art (and the fetching …
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Footsbarn
Playhouse
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Footsbarn are a remarkable theatre company. With minimal subsidy they have toured for nearly twenty years presenting more than 47 productions. While their range is wide, Shakespeare is their staple. Adelaide saw Macbeth in the 1986 Festival, a production which they rehearsed at McLaren Vale and took on the the road to sixteen different countries.
From its origins in Cornwall (in the barn of founding actor, Oliver …
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Quickies
State Theatre Company
Space, June 1990
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
The first thing to say about Quickies is that they are a welcome addition to the State Theatre Company’s card. Combining the formula for the 1986 Shorts season- recent works performed by the State and Magpie ensembles, directed by a variety of guests – with State’s long-standing practice of offering public readings of plays by SA dramatists, the result is a double season of works by local writers …
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May Week Was in June
Clive James
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
There is something prodigal about Clive James’s writing. An expense of spirit, you might say, in a waste of shame. Prolific almost to a fault, he has not only produced twenty books, including two overcooked novels and half a dozen volumes of comic verse less Augustan than Dysgustan, he has also become a television monolith producing the kind of glib, pleased-with-itself instant editorialising that, as critic for The …
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