2002
Shut Up and Love Me
Karen Finley
Union Hall, Adelaide University until 15 March.
Bookings FringeTIX 08 8201 4567. All tickets $36.
Brisbane and Sydney dates
Murray Bramwell
The Adelaide Fringe has been going gangbusters. Already a week ago, more tickets had been sold than 2000 – an increase of forty percent – and, running seven days after the truncated Adelaide Festival, that margin is likely to increase.
Especially with imaginative local work such as Fresh Track’s production of …
My Life, My Love
by Pat Rix
Tutti Ensemble Holdfast Choir
State Theatre Company of South Australia
with State Opera.
Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide
Until 10 March. Tickets $49.75 and $44.75.
Bookings: BASS 131 246
Murray Bramwell
My Life, My Love is a joint venture between State Theatre, State Opera and the Holdfast Choir. Just the sort of companies you might expect to be involved in an Adelaide Festival. Except that the 2002 program, assembled by Peter Sellars and his …
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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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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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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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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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