Hello Down There !
Junction Theatre Company
Space
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Hello Down There! first played in June this year when Junction presented this remarkable community venture at Theatre 62. Now under the auspices of the Festival Centre Trust’s New Works program it has had a return season in the Space.
It is impossible not to be impressed by the the energy and commitment of this project. With a cast of thirty four, a choir of twelve, a seven …
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David Atkins Enterprises
Her Majesty’s
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
One of the disappointments about show business at the moment is that almost everything is retro. It is as though we are so lost in a thrall of nostalgia that we have forgotten that when Forty Second Street first appeared in 1933 people walked into the movie theatres and saw images from the streets around them. Similarly, when South Pacific opened in 1949 the war was scarcely over. …
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Murray Bramwell
Look around you; we’re living in amazing times
They are not so important-your little crimes
‘Keep it to Yourself’
Things sometimes have a habit of going full circle. Take Paul Kelly for instance. In Adelaide, his home town, he began writing in his teens, poetry at first and then prose. For a time in the late 70s he coedited the magazine Another One For Mary. Now he has a book …
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Barry Humphries
Her Majesty’s
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Edna Everage may want our eye contact but it is her unmistakable voice that greets us first in Look at Me When I’m Talking to You. With bridesmaid Madge providing sign translation on a large video screen Edna gives some guidelines for live theatre. We have not been given remote control units because they will not work- this is not television, the actors on …
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by Jeanne Mazure
South Australian Writers’ Theatre
Red Shed
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
By coincidence we have recently had two new plays about the life of the mentally ill. But where Louis Nowra’s Cosi settled for comic exoticism, in And I’ll Give You All the Diamonds in My Teeth, South Australian writer Jeanne Mazure has delved deeper. A practising psychologist herself, Mazure has had a long association with her subject …
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by David Williamson
Queensland State Theatre Company
in association with State Theatre Company
Playhouse
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
David Williamson’s recent work has often seemed like a mixture of Ibsen and Ray Cooney. The ethical and social questions in plays like Top Silk and Money and Friends were constantly being short-circuited by broad comedy and one-liners. Complexity, if any developed, was distrusted by the writer. Besides, it might compromise passenger comfort. Much better to give the folks another …
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Lecturer
Drama Discipline
School of Humanities
Duration of Program – 6 May – 27 May, 1993.
The purpose of my travel was to attend two conferences- the NZ SAGAS Conference in Laufen, Germany where I delivered a paper and the EACLALS Triennial Conferenec in Graz, Austria. I also spent several days in Munich prior to travelling to Laufen and five days in Venice, Florence and Rome before returning to Australia.
Itinerary
QANTAS QF 105 Sydney to Frankfurt arriving …
Readings from Conan Doyle
Amazing Holmes Company
The Polo Club, Union Hotel.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
The Amazing Holmes Company has been amazing audiences for ten years. Founded by Kelvin Harman and John Kelly they have taken their readings of Conan Doyle to audiences all around South Australia as well as holding sessions at various venues in town. For the past six performances they have settled into rooms that the company find as agreeable as Baker Street itself – the …
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Further details have been announced for the Honda Adelaide Music Festival which opens on September 10 – 26. The classical program has already been released and word is that tickets for headliners Roger Woodward and the Australian Chamber Orchestra are already moving fast.
But Fiesta is nothing if not diverse as the just-released Dance and Country programs indicate. The dancers of the Australian Ballet will present a mixed offering of well-known favourites with new work from the younger …
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by Louis Nowra
State Theatre Company
with the Red Shed
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
The State Theatre Company in collaboration with the Red Shed Company is combating the winter blues with Louis Nowra’s Cosi, a comedy about a young man’s adventures directing a production of Cosi Fan Tutti with a cast of patients from a mental institution. The situation and theme have plenty of echoes – from Marat Sade and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to recent comedies …
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