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December 01, 1994

The Red Shed Company- Still in the Pink

Murray Bramwell

There is much to admire about the Red Shed Company. You might start with its excellent production values. Or its increasingly confident and innovative writing. Or the distinctive clarity and precision of its acting styles. Or the range and intelligence of its themes. Wherever you want to begin the list, it is clear that in eight years of operation the company, which burst into being, waggishly announcing itself as the RSC, has earned the affection and respect of …

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Cafe Laughter

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
Playbox Theatre
Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is the beginning of the twentieth century, the Noughts, as Steve Martin waggishly calls them. Freddy’s place, the Lapin Agile in Montmartre, is hopping with activity. Here is Cafe Society- the chic, the famous, the brainy, the belle, and tous les hangers on. Robert Hughes compared European cafes to magazines- bright vortices of plumage and pleasure. The idea has persisted. We bourgeois have disinvented …

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Vile Bodies

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

1994

Bodyslam
Rock’n’Roll Circus
Space, November, 1994.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The Rock’n’Roll Circus follows a distinguished succession of new circus acts in Australia. Circus Oz has remained one of our most enduring and innovative stage companies and the taste for acrobatics, illusion, comedy and satire has been fuelled by acts as diverse as the Compagnie Philippe Genty, Archaos, Desoxy, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and Ra Ra Zoo. The Rock’n’Roll show, Bodyslam, owes more than a little to all …

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