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March 01, 1992

Festival Smalls

Filed under: Archive,Festival

Figurentheater Triangel
Metamorphosis

Theatre de la Marmaille/
Teatro dell’Angolo
Promised Land

Rough Magic Theatre
Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son

Velo Theatre
Enveloppes et Deballages

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Sprinkled throughout the theatre program are a number of smaller productions, one and two-handers which are the bonbons in the Festival’s own version of the Fringe. These shows are mostly sixty minutes long, often twilight performances and all with broad appeal.

The festival organisers already know from the success of the …

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February 16, 1992

The Germanic Players

Filed under: Archive,Fringe,Interstate,Theatre

Die Verwandlung
by Franz Kafka

Tandanya Theatre
Until February 28.

Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a creepy fable of modern angst. Gregor Samsa wakes up to find he has turned into an insect, his boss fires him and his family grow resentful that he’s no longer bringing home the bacon. The story shows the cruelty of the outside world mirrored within the toxic confines of the family.

The Germanic Players are from the University of Melbourne and their German language production, Die …

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February 01, 1992

Velo Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Festival,International,Theatre

Enveloppes et Deballage
Cottage Theatre

Velot Theatre consists of director Tania Castaing and actor Charlot Lemoine and between them they construct tales of whimsy and imagination. In Enveloppes et Deballages- wrappings and unwrappings- they create what they call a `theatre of objects.’

Lemoine is a dreamy postman with a bicycle loaded with parcels. Amidst a hubbub of bird twitterings, cat yowls and what have you, he discovers smoke coming from a huge cardboard container. When he opens it he reveals …

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