My Mathematics
Rose English
Festival Tent
Memorial Drive
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
The name’s Charlie and, obviously, I’m a horse. I’ve just been in Adelaide for the Festival. I wasn’t too sure about it all myself. It was my agent’s idea really. Good for your CV he said. You need to diversify, get into the arts more. But that’s what he said when he found that other play for me- Equus.
Well, anyway I’m back doing theatre and frankly it …
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The Guinness Celebration of Irish Music
Festival Theatre, April 1994
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Looking at my program for the first Guinness Celebration back in 1986 I am reminded of names in the line-up. It was an impressive two-night card- The Dubliners, Christy Moore, and Stockton’s Wing. Also, Maura O’Connell, Liam O’Flynn, Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn, all of whom were back for this year’s gathering. It is hard to believe that in just eight years there has been …
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Strip Tease
by Carl Hiaasen
Macmillan
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
If you were to browse the shelves for Carl Hiaasen’s five novels you might tend to pass them by. Double Whammy has on its cover a buggy-eyed bass munching a hundred dollars US. Tourist Season has a crocodile with an I-love-Florida cap hanging off its premolars and Skin Tight proclaims a close-up of an oiled navel with not enough bikini to write the price of the book on it. …
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Critical Conditions
1994
Murray Bramwell
“My criticism has not, I hope, any other fault than the inevitable one of extreme unfairness.”
So wrote George Bernard Shaw in Our Theatre in the Nineties. He was writing of his Nineties, not ours, but it is notable that many of the conventions of reviewing today are indelibly Edwardian. Or at least you might say that nothing much has changed. Except that the vigorous, impassioned, lucid criticism that Shaw produced by the boatload was both more …
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