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November 16, 1991

Setting the Scene

Filed under: Archive,Interviews

1991

Shaun Gurton talks with Murray Bramwell about his designs for the Adelaide Festival and the State Theatre Company’s final show for the 1991 season- Cabaret.

It has been a busy year for Shaun Gurton. Apart from designing five of this season’s productions, the Associate Director of the State Theatre Company went on a six week exchange to China. He also designed Mer de Glace, Richard Meale’s new work for the Australian Opera. His most recent projects have been designing …

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Setting the Scene

1991

Shaun Gurton talks with Murray Bramwell about his designs for the Adelaide Festival and the State Theatre Company’s  final show for the 1991 season- Cabaret.

It has been a busy year for Shaun Gurton. Apart from designing five of this season’s productions, the Associate Director of the State Theatre Company went on a six week exchange to China. He also designed Mer de Glace, Richard Meale’s new work for the Australian Opera. His most recent projects have been designing …

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November 01, 1991

Sewing Discontent

Offshore
by P.P. Cranney
Junction Theatre Company
Thebarton

Offshore, the latest from Junction and the old firm of Cranney and Crowhurst, is another in the Art and Working Life series. This time, though, there is a shift of focus from the Australian workplace to the little known phenomenon of the Export Processing Zone. EPZs are found throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and The Philippines all have them. There have also been investigations of …

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Edible theatre

The Cooked and the Raw
By Nick Gill
Adelaide Performing Theatre
Astor Hotel

The idea of the theatre restaurant is hardly new. Patrons have often sat at dramatic soirees rattling their cutlery while thespians cavort incongruously around them. But Nick Gill and the Adelaide Performing Theatre have given the notion quite a few more half turns with their “Exquisite Ceremony of Appetite and Desire.” The Cooked and the Raw is theatrical scratch-and-sniff, a four course play with a four course …

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Farce Forward

1991

A Flea in her Ear

by Georges Feydeau

State Theatre Company

Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In Feydeau it only needs one person to get a bee in his bonnet or a flea in her ear and it’s all va from then on. Like Labiche and Courteline, Feydeau’s farce is extra-marital, extra-mural and distinctly extra-curricular. But as with Keats’s mad pursuit and maidens loth, things are in a fairly permanent state of interruptus and the delinquent bourgeois, demented by …

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