29 September, 2003
Murray Bramwell

The Snow Queen

Windmill Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company
Adelaide Festival Centre, Dunstan Playhouse
Until 4 October. Bookings at Bass 131 246
Tickets $ 15 – $ 23. $ 68 Family.

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson is a children’s story but it is a mighty complicated one to stage. For one thing, it is not a single story but a series of episodes – involving quests and danger, magical situations and animal …

Robinson Crusoe
Adapted by Gillian Rubinstein

Windmill Productions in association with
Kim Carpenter’s Theatre of Image
The Space
July, 2003

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Windmill Productions have completed their first year of operation and there is much to celebrate. In the capable hands of Creative Producer Cate Fowler, Windmill is firmly in the first rank of companies which specialise in work for young audiences. Windmill, it would seem, has stepped straight into the first tier as a national and international …

Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany
and Contemporary America
by Stephen Sewell

State Theatre Company
in co-production with Playbox
Dunstan Playhouse
July, 2003

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A new play by Stephen Sewell is always an event. And more often than not, his plays are heralded by marvellous titles. There is a cadence to them – The Blind Giant is Dancing, Dreams in an Empty City, The Father We Loved on a Beach by the Sea. These plays sound …