2003
Murray Bramwell

The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Until 31 May, 2003. Tickets $28 -42
Bookings BASS 131 246.

If you were to feed the plot lines of Wuthering Heights, The Wolf Man, The Mummy’s Curse and Rebecca into a blender and spin at high speed, the result might well be The Mystery of Irma Vep. This theatrical tour de force for two was first performed …

2003

The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company
with Urban Myth Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
March, 2003.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

In his memoirs Arthur Miller describes driving back from Salem, Massachusetts and hearing on the radio that Elia Kazan, his close friend and the director of his famous play Death of a Salesman, had agreed to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is 1952 and Miller is in Salem researching the witch trials which had enveloped …

2003
Murray Bramwell

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Until 29 March, 2003. Tickets $28- $42
Bookings BASS 131 246

When, a year ago, Rosalba Clemente listed Arthur Miller’s The Crucible for inclusion in the 2003 State Theatre Company season, she cannot have imagined it would speak so vividly in such difficult times as these . Miller’s play, written in 1952, uses the analogy of the Salem Witch trials of …