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December 01, 2002

End of Seasoning

2002

Salt
by Peta Murray
State Theatre Company
The Space

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The State Theatre slogan for 2003 promises to spice up our lives. In fact the culinary metaphor already applies. For their final production this year the company has chosen Salt, a work by Peta Murray about mothers, daughters, and food, food and more food.

This play has enjoyed seasons around the country, originating at Playbox in Melbourne, after which it has been served in WA, Queensland …

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End of Seasoning

Salt
by Peta Murray
State Theatre Company
The Space
November, 2002.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The State Theatre slogan for 2003 promises to spice up our lives. In fact the culinary metaphor already applies. For their final production this year the company has chosen Salt, a work by Peta Murray about mothers, daughters, and food, food and more food.

This play has enjoyed seasons around the country, originating at Playbox in Melbourne, after which it has been served in WA, …

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November 01, 2002

State Occasions

State Theatre Company 2003 Season
Previewed by Murray Bramwell

The cat is out of the bag. Well, seven cats actually. While the Latin band plays, the Queen’s Theatre is up to its tiara in subscribers, theatre artists and the rest of the State Theatre faithful – all gathered to hear Artistic Director, Rosalba Clemente announce the company’s season for 2003.

Since taking charge of the company three years ago, Clemente has worked hard to rebuild and re-energise the team at …

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October 07, 2002

Star of the big picture show

7 October, 2002
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Scenes From an Execution
by Howard Barker
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Until 19 October, 2002. Tickets $ 42. Conc. $ 37. CLUB26 $16.50
Bookings: BASS 131 246

The execution referred to in Howard Barker’s play, written for radio in 1983 and first fully staged in 1989, is not a death, but the creation of a painting. But the painting is about death, the slaughter in the Battle of …

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October 04, 2002

Adelaide Theatre

30 Sept, 2002
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish
Based on the Works of Eric Carle
Windmill Performing Arts
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide
Until 5 October. Tickets $20 Adult,
$12 Children/Concession $56 Family.

Windmill Director Cate Fowler describes Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish as a production which was determined to be born. Commissioned for the 1998 Out of the Box Festival in Brisbane, it nearly stayed in its box when ACT based Company Skylark crashed after an embezzlement scandal. Fowler found rescue …

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October 01, 2002

Enquiring Minds

The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch
by Hilary Bell
Vitalstatistix
Queen’s Theatre

Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn
Sydney Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse.
September, 2002

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

While these are two very different productions – they are a world apart in theatrical style – they share a common reflection about what happens when Science Goes Wrong. Or do I mean : too Far, or too Weird, or when it presses on even when it can’t see what is further up …

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September 01, 2002

Home Truths

Filed under: Archive,Festival

2002 Melbourne Festival

Previewed by Murray Bramwell

Around the middle of next month – October 17 to be exact – the Melbourne Festival opens and runs for two busy weeks. For too long, we in Adelaide with our prestigious biennial event, have looked down our noses at Sydney and Melbourne. After all, those once-a-year fixtures didn’t have the depth and intricacy of the Adelaide programs and, compared with our forty year history, they could be dismissed as latter-day clones.

That …

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August 01, 2002

High Jinx

My Girragundji
by Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Prior
Bell Shakespeare Company
Space
July, 2002

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Based on the book by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
Windmill Performing Arts
Dunstan Playhouse

Windmill has opened its account with two excellent works. This new company dedicated to producing programs for families and children was a pet project for outgoing Arts Minister Diana Laidlaw and, boosted by a handsome operating grant, has now become one of the centrepieces in the …

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July 19, 2002

Theatre Adelaide

19 July 2002
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Dealer’s Choice by Patrick Marber
State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Until 3 August, 2002 Tickets $13.50 – $42.
Bookings BASS 131 246

Of all the addictions, poker is right up there with the swiftest and the deadliest. Someone even invented a machine so you could lose your money, not only more efficiently, but in total isolation. For the initiated, though, poker is not like a spin of a wheel …

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July 08, 2002

Theatre Adelaide

July, 2002

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Windmill Performing Arts Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Until 20 July, 2002 Bookings BASS 131 246

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What happens when you can’t remember your memories ? That is the problem faced by Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper. Fortunately, she is about to be helped out by her new little chum from next door. He is also blessed with four names – in fact, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is the unfurling title of Mem …

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