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March 08, 2002

Adelaide Festival – Film

Filed under: Archive,Festival

6 March 2002
Murray Bramwell

Shedding Light .
Australian films commissioned by Adelaide Festival
and SBS Independent. Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide.
Until 7 March. Regional South Australian tour until 14 March
Contact Country Arts SA (08) 8444 0400 for details.

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The Adelaide Festival films have always been one of Peter Sellars’ pet ideas, and they have turned out to be among his best. With various funding, including $1.5m from the Festival, Shedding Light Director and SBS Independent executive, Bridget …

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March 04, 2002

Adelaide Festival 2002 Theatre

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3 March, 2002
Murray Bramwell

The Career Highlights of Mamu
by Trevor Jamieson and Scott Rankin.
Black Swan Theatre Company. The Playhouse.
Adelaide Festival Centre. Until 5 March.
Tickets $ 48, $32 SPU. BASS 13 246.

Co-written and narrated by Aboriginal performer Trevor Jamieson, The Career Highlights of Mamu is an epic work, because much has happened to his kinship family from the spinifex country of Tjuntjuntjara, just over the border between South and Western Australia. Mamu, the spirit demon …

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March 01, 2002

Three arts projects

Three Arts Projects

3 Dark Tales
Theatre O
Scott Theatre

Kayassine
Les Arts Sauts
Torrens Parade Ground

Hopeless Games
fabrik Potsdam & DO Theatre
Union Hall

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Theatre O from the UK is a hypermobile company which uses the signature performance techniques of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Their Edinburgh Festival hit, 3 Dark Tales is one of three international productions being offered in the Adelaide Fringe program by Arts Projects Australia.

Using two heavy costume racks, …

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Fringe Events

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2002
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The Fringe is in full swing for 2002. Even before the Friday night Opening Parade, which attracts a crowd upwards of fifty thousand, plenty of venues are well under way. At The Garden of Unearthly Delights in Rundle Park East, the Amazing Lunar Tent has already opened for circus biz while the Spiegeltent, which made its first appearance in Australia in Adelaide several Fringes ago, has again opened its elegant Edwardian doors for a full …

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February 16, 2002

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Comedy

15 February, 2002.
Murray Bramwell

Partly It’s About Love…Partly It’s About Massacre
by Fiona Sprott. Savage Wit and Vitalstatistix.
The Bakehouse, Adelaide. Until 16 March.
Tickets $18, $12 . Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8201 4567

Jezebel is back, not so much with a vengeance – although first-degree butter knife wounds are involved here – but with a story to tell about her heart, her hormones and the deep ambivalence of commitment. Jezebel is the creation of writer Fiona Sprott and actor …

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February 01, 2002

Festival Update

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2002 Adelaide Festival
Previewed by Murray Bramwell

The call came late on Friday afternoon for the briefing at noon on Sunday 6 January. The much-awaited revamp of the Adelaide Festival program had finally taken place, less than two months from the Opening Ceremony. It is a sunny day outside but our tiny media contingent of not more than a dozen people is led, in somewhat clandestine fashion, through the dressing room catacombs to the stage of the Playhouse which has …

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APA

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2002
APA presents

3 Dark Tales
A Theatre O production

Melbourne – Merlyn Theatre
February 11 to 20, 2002
Box Office 03 9685 5111

Adelaide Fringe Festival
Adelaide – Scott Theatre
February 22 to March 9, 2002

Bass 131 246 www.bass.sa.net.au
or FringeTIX www.adelaidefringe.com.au

The Company
Director Joseph Alford
Designer Isla Shaw
Choreographer Eva Vilamitjana
Lighting design Sarah Coxon

Stories by Joseph Alford, Jon Rand, Carolina Valdes
Lucien MacDougall and Sarah Coxon

“O,o interj. An exclamation expressing surprise, admiration, pain, …

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Fringe Notes

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Adelaide Fringe 2002
Previewed by Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Fringe is a remarkable event, for its size, its energy and, especially for the opportunity it offers artists to reach their audiences. That has not been happening with much vigour in Adelaide of late. There has been less activity in the performing arts in the past two years and the link with audiences has often been a tenuous one. For any number of good and terrible reasons, people seem to have …

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January 01, 2002

Summer Seven

Filed under: Archive,Festival

2002

International Performances
Previewed by Murray Bramwell

When, not just the wheels, but the doors, panels and mudguards began falling off the Adelaide Festival program it was fortuitous that Arts Projects Australia has been on hand to provide a seven point Plan B. In fact, the varied music and performance events being presented in Adelaide and other centres from late this month through to early March, had already been offered for inclusion in the original Festival line-up and politely declined. …

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