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June 01, 1997

Newfangled

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Guinness Celebration of Irish Music
Thebarton Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In its eleventh year, Jon Nicholls’ touring Irish mini-festival is more of an achievement than ever. Like the Barossa Festival and Womadelaide it is a South Australian initiative which has established a format pleasingly familiar, keenly awaited, and widely regarded as a showcase of the best available.

Over a decade the Guinness Celebration has introduced audiences to talents who were already, or have become, major figures in the rapidly …

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Future Tense

Magpie2 opens at Queen’s Theatre in Adelaide with the double header Future Tense, directed by Benedict Andrews.

Murray Bramwell

Magpie has returned. It now has a series number -like a software package, or an engine. Magpie2. Reconfigured by former State Theatre Company Executive Producer, Chris Westwood, the company has set aside its theatre in schools charter to provide theatre works with the eighteen to twenty-six year old constituency in mind. It is a big move and there are no guarantees. …

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Adelaide

The Secret Death of Salvador Dali
by Stephen Sewell

The Court of Miracles
Directed by Peter Dunn
Lion Theatre
Adelaide

“The difference between a madman and me”, Salvador Dali once said, “is that I am not mad.” More, you might say, crazy like a fox. The pre-eminent artist celebrity before Andy Warhol, Dali forms the link between the anti-bourgeois Dada comedy of Alfred Jarry and the zany popularity of the Marx Brothers. With his melting watches, lobster telephones and a …

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Dance

Fast Editing
Simone Clifford
The Space
Adelaide Festival Centre

Murray Bramwell

Adelaide based Simone Clifford’s current program of work, Fast Editing , is part of the Festival Centre Trust’s Made to Move season. Formerly a dancer with ADT during Jonathan Taylor’s artistic directorship in the early Eighties, Clifford went on to work in Jiri Kylian’s Nederlands Dans Theater for five years.

Fast Editing consists of two works- a new piece entitled Reluctant Relics , created in October and November of …

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