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April 01, 1997

Sleepy

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare

Royal Shakespeare Company
Festival Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell.

It may take forty minutes for Puck to put a girdle round the earth but it takes the RSC a little longer. It is ten years since we saw Anthony Sher’s Richard III and a lot longer back to Peter Brook’s legendary Dream. Now, boosted by a British Council celebrating its jubilee, the RSC returns like an infrequent comet, bringing with it a considerable reputation …

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Parklife

Filed under: Archive,Womadelaide

Womadelaide
Botanic Park

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell.

It is the fourth Womadelaide and by now we have very much got the hang of it. The protocols are set, the format is immediately recognisable, the production values continue to be high. There is nothing for it but to join the throng and enjoy Adelaide’s most successful musical picnic.

Womadelaide is quite unique. There can be few other events involving more than sixty thousand participants which run so amiably and smoothly. The …

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Tivoli Recitals

Filed under: Archive,Music

Stan Ridgway
Dirty Three
Tivoli Hotel

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Stan Ridgway’s set at the Tivoli would have had the significance of the Second Coming – if he’d ever been a first time. Among the modest sized crowd, gathered on day seven of the century celsius, were ticket holders from the cancelled Stan show slated for February 1987. Ten years and one day it has taken us to get to Adelaide, Stan bellows good-naturedly. Yessiree Bob. We may have lost …

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Hot Days and Nights

Filed under: Archive,Music

1997

Big Day Out

Wayville Showground

Stan Ridgway

Dirty Three

Tivoli Hotel

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In five years Big Day Out, the Australian version of the Lollapalooza roadshow, has become a summer institution. Promoters Ken West and Vivian Lees have officially declared this year’s model to be the last. Big Day Out is no more. Now the legend can begin. And history will be kind to this rite of summer. It has been, in every sense, good value. For …

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