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December 01, 1991

Snap

Snap
devised by Magpie Theatre SA
Director: Steven Gration
Designer: Kathryn Sproul, Choreographer: Deb Batton ,
Music: Andrea Rieniets, Stage Manager: Shelley Lush
Cast: Fille Dusseljee, Francis Greenslade, Nick Hope, Kate Roberts, Mandi
Sandilands

Snap is a group devised project from Magpie hatched in consultation with children from Sturt Street Primary School in Adelaide. The aim was to create a work involving visual arts, drama, dance and music which, among other things, examined the theme of separation. Deliberately avoiding a …

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Righting History

Sweetown
by Melissa Reeves
Red Shed Company
Red Shed, Cardwell St.
November, 1991.

The Red Shed’s latest – Sweetown, a new commission from Melissa Reeves – is their strongest show since Road. Their output has been rather patchy of late and, with their commitment to produce original work, they set a hard pace for themselves. This production marks not just a return to form, but a consolidation of their claim to being one of the leading alternative theatre …

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Lieder of the Pack

1991

Cabaret

State Theatre Company

in association with the Australian Dance Theatre

Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The full credits for Cabaret are quite a mouthful – Book by Joe Masteroff, based on a play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Originally Produced and Directed on the New York Stage by Harold Prince. State’s Christmas knees-up production, in conjuction with ADT, has a cast of eight, a chorus of …

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Funny Money

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

1991

A Royal Commission into the Australian Economy

by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson

Space Cabaret

Susan Haynes/Allen and Unwin

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

John Clarke and Ross Stevenson conducted their first Royal Commission during the Melbourne Comedy Festival back in 1988 and it quickly became the hit show of the season. So when they set up a new inquisition- this time into the Australian Economy- it was certain to attract interest. All the same, it was a bold move …

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