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March 18, 2003

Modern message in Miller classic

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

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 …

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March 01, 2003

Last Rights

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

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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A Last Hurrah

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2003

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. …

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Fire and Hard Rain

Filed under: Archive,Music

James 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 …

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