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January 01, 1996

Figuring the Landscape

Filed under: Archive,International,Interviews,Theatre

Figuring the Landscape

Murray Bramwell talks with Philippe Genty and Mary Underwood about their new Australian-based production, Stowaways.

For nearly twenty years Philippe Genty has been an Australian stowaway. Ever since his first visit to the Adelaide and Perth Festivals in1978 he has lodged in the minds of a diverse Australian audience which has been both entranced and intrigued by the imaginative world of his theatre. His wacky dancing ostriches and weird little floating homunculi, his erotic puppets festooned in …

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Making Gravy

Filed under: Archive,Music

1996

Paul Kelly

with Paul Brady

Governor Hindmarsh

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Paul Kelly has played here four times this year and each time he’s been full of surprises. The January gig at Heaven brought a five piece line-up plus a set from the Blackeyed Susans. Then, fresh from the Womad train, he played a full house at Festival Theatre with fabled pedal steel player and national broadcaster, Lucky Oceans. The Norwood Town Hall show featured Renee Geyer, whose fortunes …

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All the World’s a Three Day Stage

Filed under: Archive,Womadelaide

1996

Womadelaide

Murray Bramwell talks with Womadelaide organisers Rob Brookman and Thomas

Brooman about the World Music festival’s continuing success.

Adelaide’s Botanic Park is a green haven right in the centre of town. With

its majestic Moreton Bay figs and well-watered meadow, it is bounded by the

zoo on one side and the botanical gardens on the other. Not surprisingly, it

is a favourite spot for a scattered population of picnickers, joggers,

strollers, sketchers, spin bowlers and anybody else fancying …

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