Lecture: Sweetown: Silent Legacy
NB. It is essential that you first read the text of Sweetown- distributed in tutorials some weeks ago. If you don’t have a copy please collect one from the Drama Office. On Monday 31 October at our 2pm session members of the original Red Shed production of Sweetown will present a reading. Please make sure you attend, it is an ideal opportunity to get a sense of the comedy and theatrics of the play. The actors …
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by Alberto Felix Alberto
Teatro Del Sur
by arrangement with State Theatre
Amanda….Maria Alejandra Figueroa
The Diva…Marta Riveros
The Magnific…Eduardo Cappussi
The Pole ….Luis Tenewicki
Direction, Design and Lighting…Alberto Felix Alberto
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
Wednesday 2 November
Warsaw Tango is very much the creation of Alberto Felix Alberto. He has written, designed and directed this dream-like performance for quartet and the production has toured widely since its premiere seven years ago. This is the first tour …
Continue Reading Back to topWarsaw Tango
Written, Designed and Directed by Alberto Felix Alberto.
Teatro Del Sur, in association with State Theatre.
Technical Director: Ignacio Riveros.
With: Maria Alejandra Figueroa, Marta Riveros,
Eduardo Cappussi, Luis Tenewicki.
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Murray Bramwell
Argentinian company, Teatro Del Sur, touring for the first time to Australia, have opened their much-travelled piece, Warsaw Tango, in Adelaide. Pre-season detail about the work has been scarce. Even the program notes are opaque. Warsaw Tango is “meant to be …
Continue Reading Back to topDave Graney and the Coral Snakes
The Synagogue
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Dave Graney’s second coming to the Synagogue is nothing less than revelation. Riding their current album, You Wanna be There But You Don’t Wanna Travel, Graney and his band the Coral Snakes are in supremely confident form. As well they might be, they are as good as anything you’ll find in current music.
Taking the stage in black suits the Coral Snakes are crisp and fluent – like …
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Because You Are Mine
by Daniel Keene
Red Shed Company
Space, September, 1994.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
In the Festival Centre Trust’s Brave New Works season there could be few works as brave and new as Daniel Keene’s Red Shed commission Because You Are Mine. The Shed has presented other works by Keene -Low, a taut two-hander of underclass crime and punishment and the densely poetic dream play, All Souls. They were strong productions – some of the Shed’s …
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Viva la Vida
Frida Kahlo
Handspan Theatre
Space, September, 1994.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Maybe it was all those calendars of Frida. Those querulous looks from heavy brows and hooded eyes. Each month, the iconography of pain and gore, flesh perforated with thorns and nails, a few small nips and Diego on my mind. The rediscovery of Frida Kahlo has charted a steep curve from obscurity to greeting cards. Her works have been seen in festivals and her biography …
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