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December 29, 1990

Summer at the River Bank

Filed under: Archive,Interviews

1990

Ratty, Mole and Badger are returning to the Botanic Gardens this week. Murray Bramwell talks with Director Elena Eremin about Park Projects’ new production of The Wind in the Willows.

According to the mythology Glenn Elston hatched the idea for his highly successful outdoor productions of The Wind in the Willows five or six years ago when he was living in London . He had never read Kenneth Grahame’s rodent classic before and after discovering it in the cheerless …

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Summer at the River Bank

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

1990

Ratty, Mole and Badger are returning to the Botanic Gardens this week. Murray Bramwell talks with Director Elena Eremin about Park Projects’ new production of The Wind in the Willows.

According to the mythology Glenn Elston hatched the idea for his highly successful outdoor productions of The Wind in the Willows five or six years ago when he was living in London . He had never read Kenneth Grahame’s rodent classic before and after discovering it in the cheerless …

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December 01, 1990

Getting the Big Picture on the Small Screen

Filed under: Archive,Interviews

1990

Prophets and Loss
Produced and Directed by Gabrielle Kelly
and Nick Hart-Williams

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Global warming is the kind of subject likely to put a chill around the heart. It is perhaps for that reason that apart from specifically ordained days of lamentation or the usually unhelpful raiment tearing that we find on TV, the environment as a subject does not rate attention. We get the Nostradamus doomwatch stuff or specific details of spills and toxic waste …

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Myth Match

Filed under: Archive,Music

1990

Eric Clapton
Festival Theatre
November, 1990.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Eric Clapton has always set the standard. After the music papers announced that Clapton used a banjo string on his guitar, the shops sold out of banjo strings. Curiously, he has followed traditional American music and become an innovator in the process. Starting in the Yardbirds in 1964, Clapton has always been a purist. Just when the band was starting to get a bit fab he was off to …

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Magpie Theatre Company

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

1990

Mango Season

by Michael Doneman

Directed by Angela Chaplin

Design : Kathryn Sproul

Choreography : Belinda Saltmarsh

Cast: Nick Hope, Claire Jones,

Kate Roberts, Peter Wood plus

Unley Youth Theatre – Roz Evans, Arabella Gryst, Emma Sheldon, Freya Newton, Alison Walsh, Alex Witham, Sara Oliver, Hayley Smith, Diarmid Lee, Sarah Marr, Ben Kempster.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Mango Season is the fruit of a Creative Development Project formed between Michael and Ludmila Doneman’s Brisbane based Contact company, Darwin’s Corrugated …

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Getting the Big Picture on the Small Screen

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

1990

Prophets and Loss

Produced and Directed by Gabrielle Kelly

and Nick Hart-Williams

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Global warming is the kind of subject likely to put a chill around the heart. It is perhaps for that reason that apart from specifically ordained days of lamentation or the usually unhelpful raiment tearing that we find on TV, the environment as a subject does not rate attention. We get the Nostradamus doomwatch stuff or specific details of spills and toxic waste …

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Shaggy Stories

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

1990

Tales from the Decameron
State Theatre Company
The Space, November, 1990.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In their last home-grown project for the year Simon Phillips’ State Theatre Company has turned to Boccaccio’s Decameron. Written between 1348 and 1351 The Decameron perches on the cusp of the new mercantile age. Introducing a colloquial urbanity, it is fresh, erotic, often vulgar, and accessible- everything the upwardly mobile could want. It was keenly sought when it first appeared and copies were highly …

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The Confidential Clarke

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

1990

Great Interviews of the Twentieth Century

John Clarke

Susan Haynes/Allen and Unwin.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is rumoured that while ratings for Channel Nine’s A Current Affair sit steadily in the high thirties, for the last five minutes on a Friday they clear forty. The reason is John Clarke, who, with henchperson Bryan Dawe, has perfected the political interview to such an extent that not even politicians need to be present. Speaking for the PM, Premiers, Cabinet Ministers, …

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