The Last Acre
by Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
The Bakehouse
February, 2003
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
We know, and absolutely don’t want to know, how a single action, a single impulse can change everything. This is what we mean by a life-or-death moment, that split second, as we call it, when something irrevocable occurs and it can’t be changed back. This is the moment that can’t be believed even when it is re-lived repeatedly, the moment that is still …
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Nixon’s Nixon
by Russell Lees
P&S Productions
in association with Arts Projects Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, March 2003
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Much of what I know about Richard Milhous Nixon came from the unbiased testimony of Hunter S. Thompson. Throughout the Watergate hearings in 1973 he reported for Rolling Stone, despatching down his infamous mojo wire the most scabrous accounts of the disgraced president which were duly published alongside exhilaratingly vehement illustrations by Ralph Steadman.
Nixon was fair game. …
Continue Reading Back to topJames Taylor
Festival Theatre
Bob Dylan
with Ani diFranco and the Waifs
Entertainment Centre
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Perhaps no-one epitomises popular music at the beginning of the 1970s more than James Taylor. Along with Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon he was the prototype of the singer-songwriter, not a cult figure like Bob Dylan and the other folkies, but a confessional soloist the way John Lennon had become. By the end of the sixties no-one was supposed to sing other …
Continue Reading Back to topMurray Bramwell previews Womadelaide 2003
Womadelaide celebrates ten years next month and it is now a leading fixture on the city’s cultural calendar. So much so, in fact, that Premier Mike Rann recently negotiated keenly to keep the event in Adelaide despite counter bids from Sydney and Melbourne. Womad UK director Thomas Brooman drove a hard bargain – as well he might, to secure one of the more successful Womad festivals anywhere – by insisting that Adelaide become an annual …
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Murray Bramwell
Ristorante Immortale
A Floz Production
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
Ends 1 March. Tickets $28 -$ 42. $96 Family of 4.
BASS ph. 131 246.
The Ristorante Immortale is unlikely to get a listing in the Michelin Guide, or anywhere else for that matter. It has zany waiters, an accordion wielding cook, an endlessly hopeful owner and, it would seem, no customers at all. This restaurant is not so much immortal as in a state …
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