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October 07, 2002

Star of the big picture show

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

7 October, 2002
Murray Bramwell

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

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

30 Sept, 2002
Murray Bramwell

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

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

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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