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June 01, 1992

Reversals of Fortune

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Money and Friends
David Williamson
State Theatre Company presents
RQTC, Queensland’s State Theatre Company
Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There is an increasingly widespread perception that David Williamson is a man more sinned against than sinning, that after more than twenty years he has not been embraced for the plays he has given us and the institution he has become. He is presented as our loftiest poppy, a Gulliver of the theatre constantly needled by Lilliputian envy and peevishness.

This …

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Two for Two

Filed under: Archive,Interviews

1992

Murray Bramwell talks to Director Simon Phillips and Designer Shaun Gurton about their forthcoming season of classics in tandem

The State Theatre Company’s first in-house production for the year is a double bill – or more correctly, a Bill and a John. Performed in repertory, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore represent what the company are calling in their promotion two classic tales of forbidden love. Certainly when Lysander, the confused …

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One of a Kind

Filed under: Archive,Music

1992

Paul Kelly
Old Lion, May 1992

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

I arrived late for Paul Kelly’s solo spot at the Old Lion. At ten thirty I was still watching Malvina Major’s splendid account of the expiration, via madness and grief, of Lucia, late of the Lammermoors. Moving from the studied contrivances of  bel canto to the easy colloquialism of Paul Kelly calls for some rapid cultural gear changes but by no means a drop in expectation. Kelly’s music and …

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Two for Two

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

1992

Murray Bramwell talks to Director Simon Phillips and Designer Shaun Gurton about their forthcoming season of classics in tandem

The State Theatre Company’s first in-house production for the year is a double bill – or more correctly, a Bill and a John. Performed in repertory, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore represent what the company are calling in their promotion two classic tales of forbidden love. Certainly when Lysander, the confused …

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