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December 01, 2001

Adelaide Festival Crisis

Filed under: Archive,Festival

2001
Murray Bramwell

The past two months have been like a spill of dominoes for the Adelaide Festival. From the debacle over the Hitler poster, late in October, to the dismal program launch, days later, which revealed, finally, how empty the larder had become and how many projects had failed – like so many baby turtles on the beach – to reach maturity. To make matters worse, Artistic Director Peter Sellars was unavailable for the launch, neither as support to …

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Buried Lives

2001

A Lie of the Mind

by Sam Shepard

Brink Productions

Space

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The second and final Brink production for the year is also an American play. Sam Shepard’s  A Lie of the Mind makes an interesting pair with the company’s co-production with State Theatre back in June. That was Killer Joe, Tracy Letts’ grim trailer park tragicomedy of love, and death, for sale. Both plays are set in the poor white margins, one in Texas, …

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