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October 01, 1991

Tu Tu Much

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

Tu Tu Wha
Australian Dance Theatre
Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
September, 1991.

“Tu Tu Wha implores us to examine why there is a separation of intuition from the intellect and to ask is technology our slave or are we slaves to it? To re-acquaint ourselves with an ancient and familiar paradigm of the world as an intricate organic net or interaction.”

There you have it in the proverbial nutshell. ADT’s latest venture is nothing if not ambitious – The History …

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The Rough with the Smooth

Filed under: Archive,Music

1991

Joe Jackson
Thebarton Theatre
Coppel/SA-FM

Elvis Costello and
the Rude Five
Entertainment Centre
MTV/SA-FM

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Someone once said that after the Beatles made it big the pigeon-chested weaklings got all the best girls. That’s not entirely true – Buddy Holly had already made it despite his nerdy horn rims and so did English rockers like Adam Faith even though he, clearly, never ate his vegetables. In fact, the ectomorphs have ruled the earth since the beginnings …

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Resuscitated

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

1991

Jonah

Book and Lyrics by John Romeril

Music by Alan John

State Theatre Company

Space

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is not hard to see why John Romeril would be attracted to Jonah. With its temper democratic; bias offensively Australian, Louis Stone’s naturalistic tale of the Botany Road push, circa 1905, gathers around it many of the elements of Romeril’s own work. It is accessible and generous-hearted, a likeable yarn with a darkly  mythic logic.  The story of Jonah …

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