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September 08, 1991

Journeying to Capricornia

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

1990

The State Theatre Company production of Capricornia opens in the Playhouse tonight. Director, Kingston Anderson talks to Murray Bramwell about the process from novel to stage.

You might say that Kingston Anderson’s professional career has been dominated by a single word -Capricornia. This  point is not lost on him either. “Justine Saunders and I have a joke that we will meet in the street when we are eighty and say `When will you be doing Capricornia again?'”

Anderson was …

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September 01, 1991

Phantom Ibsen

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Big Ensemble
Lion Theatre.

Of all Ibsen’s plays, Ghosts is the most scarifying. Its themes are darkly deterministic, its social criticism relentless. Ibsen’s plays spoke not just for his own country but for all of Europe, haunted by the ghosts of dead ideas, old and obsolete beliefs. As his central character, Mrs Alving says – “They are not alive in us but they remain in us none the less, and we can never rid themselves of …

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A Sport’s Round-up

Filed under: Archive,Books

1991

Oval Dreams

Brian Matthews

McPhee Gribble

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Brian Matthews has written a fair swag of occasional pieces but I have two particular favourites. One is a conference paper on Australian poetry, which began with a droll account of his childhood in St Kilda, the other an essay, published in these very columns , on the subject of Channel Nine cricket. The former, written fifteen years ago, for me signalled new possibilities for academic writing. Yes, Virginia, …

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