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July 01, 1998

Family Ties

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

1998

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

adapted by Rob Croser

Independent Theatre

Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Independent Theatre has had a continuing relationship with the works of John Steinbeck for a while now. Several years ago the company presented Frank Galati’s stage adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath and now, with the benediction of Elaine Steinbeck, the writer’s widow, director Rob Croser has taken East of Eden and staged it in the Playhouse.

It is a hugely ambitious project …

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Journeys

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

1998

Up the Road

John Harding

Company B Belvoir/Playbox

Space

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is very rarely that we go to the theatre and experience the immediacy of issues of the day. But that is what it was like to see Company B Belvoir’s production of John Harding’s Up the Road just three days after the Queensland election. Not that the play has been contrived for relevance or, even, that  anyone could have predicted, when it was listed for …

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