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August 15, 1990

An Evening with Peter Ustinov

1990

Festival Theatre
Adelaide, August 13, 1990.

Everybody knows that Peter Ustinov is a remarkable fellow but the list of his accomplishments is boggling. Linguist, playwright, novelist, director, actor, ambassador for UNICEF, his swag of honours include two Academy Awards, several Emmys, a Grammy, British Film Awards,
numerous Critics Awards, as well as a CBE, the Franklin Medal, a chair in the French Academy, and, in June this year, a knighthood.

In his show, An Evening With Peter Ustinov, the …

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August 11, 1990

Death of a Salesman

1990

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

Gilles Theatre Company

Warren Neale Theatre

Gilles Plains College of TAFE

August, 1990.

From the moment it appeared in 1949 Death of a Salesman was hailed as a modern classic. Twenty years ago it seemed like a monument to a bygone cult of mammon. Now, forty-one years on, it has much to say again about contemporary confusions between the business of life and the life of business. New Age marketspeak may have …

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August 01, 1990

Captivating

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

1990

Our Country’s Good
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Melbourne Theatre Company
Playhouse, July, 1990

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

So tight are the copyright requirements for Our Country’s Good that before you can say Timberlake Wertenbaker you have been obliged to remember that the play is based on Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker. Drawing from historical documents, notably the journal of Lt Ralph Clark, the Playmaker, is an imaginative recreation of the staging on June 4th, 1789, of The Recruiting Officer, the …

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