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May 16, 2003

Stylistic stew serves up hilarious camp

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 …

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May 01, 2003

Blind Faith

Filed under: Archive,Music

2003

The Blind Boys of Alabama

Governor Hindmarsh

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is ten years next month since Brian and Vivien Tonkin took over the licence at the Governor Hindmarsh hotel on Port Road. And in that time it has become one of the busiest, and certainly the best loved, of Adelaide’s  live music venues. Week after week it programs every kind of music – blues, jazz, old rock, new pop, Scottish and Irish music, garage bands and electronica. …

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