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July 01, 1997

Rapture and Rhythm

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

Quiver
Leigh Warren and Dancers
Norwood Town Hall
Adelaide

Murray Bramwell

Quiver, the new program from Leigh Warren and Dancers is continuing evidence of the company’s invention and excellence. With last year’s return season of Klinghoffer and now, the unveiling of two contrasting works, Shimmer and Swerve, Leigh Warren’s signatures are becomingly increasingly apparent. His work is disciplined, elegant and has the added intensity which music performed live can bring. With Klinghoffer, he borrowed ethereal choruses from John Adams’s opera, …

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Double Disillusion

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Don’s Party
by David Williamson

State Theatre
Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There can be no better instance of David Williamson’s theatrical verve than Don’s Party. This suburban bacchanal not only captures in broad sweeps the issues of its day it is also a durable comedy of humours. The situation is disarmingly simple. A group of people get together for an election night party which deteriorates into confrontation and regret. It ends not with resolution but exhaustion -with just …

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Blood Simple

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Interstate,Theatre

Wolf Lullaby
by Hilary Bell

Griffin Theatre Company
Space

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A large white kitchen chair dominates the minimal set for Hilary Bell’s powerful new play, Wolf Lullaby. Denoting a child’s perspective of the adult world it dwarves the two normal sized chairs set next to it. And when Lizzie, aged nine, climbs into it clutching her dolly, it also amplifies the enormity of the emotions and anxieties this play manages to conjure.

Lizzie lives with her mother, …

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Angels and Devil Drivers

Filed under: Archive,Music

The Mutton Birds
Cartoons Club

Dave Graney ‘n’ the Coral Snakes
Flinders Uni Refectory

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There are plenty of bands with unappetising names but there can be few less prepossessing than the Mutton Birds. They could have chosen something a bit more… lyrical. Even the Shearwaters sounds better. But, no. Just plain old muttons. A salty seabird and a possible sheep joke, that’s how they like it. And always have. Lead singer and principal composer, Don McGlashan …

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