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March 03, 1996

Adelaide Fringe Theatre and Other Soloists

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

The 1996 Adelaide Fringe program lists sixty-two entries under Theatre, not including another ten or so roosting under the heading of Comedy. The range is huge in both style and quality. There are a variety of spins on Shakespeare, revivals of classics such as Marlowe’s Edward II and Buchner’s Danton’s Death, as well as productions of contemporary playwrights Wallace Shawn, Edward Albee and Stephen Berkoff. There is also a gratifying array of new and self-devised work.

Lotus War , written …

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March 01, 1996

Break-out

Claustrophobia
devised by the Maly Company

Maly Theatre of St Petersburg
Festival Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In both Gaudeamus and Claustrophobia, the Maly Theatre present us with a profusion of mixed messages. The company, youthful, vibrant and full of theatrical charm performs material which is often bitter, predatory, and seething with cynicism. The vignettes of life in the Construction Battalion in Gaudeamus show a vicious, divisive group of young people brutalised by circumstance. And the closing tableau with the …

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Artful Dodges

Filed under: Archive,Music

1996

Adelaide Festival

Living Yesterday Tomorrow

Malcolm McLaren

Her Majesty’s

The speaker for the evening takes the stage. Strolling towards the lectern in a baggy black suit and a peach coloured open-neck shirt, shuffling papers and lugging an attache case, he looks like a dotty art theory lecturer. This is Malcolm McLaren ? The Fagin of punk, Alfred Jarry of the Kings Road, bagman for the Sex Pistols ?

With his tousled Harpo curls,  his languorous eyelids and drawling delivery …

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