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June 10, 2002

Rocky Horror and a Pack of Droll Models

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

10 June, 2002
ADELAIDE
Cabaret

Murray Bramwell

Sleepless Beauty
Christa Hughes , Imogen Kelly, Ruby May Fox, Minx Contortionista.
Michael Lira, Neill Duncan and Svetlana Bunic
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre until 9 June, 2002
The Studio, Sydney Opera House 12 – 22 June.

The Rat Pack
Paul McDermott, Mikey Robbins and Sandman
with the Club Luna Band
Festival Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre
June 8.

It may look like the blitz outside, but in every available performance space inside the …

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June 01, 2002

Cold Comfort Farm

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
Sydney Theatre Company
with The Druid Theatre and Royal Court
Optima Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There are nearly as many cliches about Ireland as there are people willing to perpetuate them. It’s not just the leprechaun pubs and the soft core music – it’s as though the whole place has become a theme park. James Joyce once said Ireland was the mother that ate her farrow. Nowadays, she’d sell them to …

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Great and Small

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

The Great Man
by David Williamson

State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
May, 2002

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

David Williamson has an excellent instinct for currency. Not the folding kind, although his present London show won’t be doing his wallet any harm. I mean the currency of ideas and manners, the zeitgeist writ large, small or merely fashionable. He has done the professions, he has splendidly done footy, he has looked at the etiquette of wealth, or at least of not …

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