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March 24, 2001

Big World

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Womadelaide 2001
Botanic Park

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Womadelaide Mark Six has come and gone and its remarkable continuity is again assured. The key to its success is clear. It is well-funded, well managed and has a modus operandi that not only works but is shared by the up-to-25,000 crowd that fills Botanic Park at its peak attendance. Few outdoor festivals enjoy the support that Womad has – from Government departments, quangos, NGOs, arts organisations, Botanic gardeners, St John, the …

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March 01, 2001

Combat Zone

Third World Blues
by David Williamson

State Theatre Company
The Playhouse
February, 2001.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

For an artist to return to a finished work and then revise it, is rarely a simple matter. Plenty of painters, as X-ray evidence indicates, have added and concealed brushwork. A recent retrospective of Jeffrey Smart’s canvases gave the artist an opportunity to alter and “improve” one he hadn’t seen for a while – much to the horror of the private owner who …

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