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July 19, 2002

Theatre Adelaide

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

19 July 2002
Murray Bramwell

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

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

July, 2002

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

Murray Bramwell

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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July 01, 2002

Cabaret Season

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2002
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Despite the fact that the weather has been wintry and the Festival plaza still looks like the Blitz – the decrustation process apparently taking forever – the Centre itself hasn’t looked so busy since… the last Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

As we don’t need reminding, the Centre was not the focus for much of this year’s Adelaide Festival and, otherwise, usage has been sporadic. So, with sixteen nights of programming – in the …

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Another Country

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2002

Despoiled Shore

Medeamaterial

Landscape with Argonauts

The Border Project

Queen’s Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The Border Project is a new company committed, you might say, to pushing the boundaries. And with their first venture, based on the texts of German writer Heiner Muller, they have taken on the themes of exile, persecution and betrayal. Muller uses the story of Medea, the sorceress who betrays her father and slaughters her brother in order to help her lover Jason steal …

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