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August 25, 2003

Delightful: a Pair of Cats on the High Seas

Adelaide Theatre

The Stowaway and the Captain’s Cat
by Anne Brookman

The Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
and the State Library of South Australia
Adelaide Festival Centre, Dunstan Playhouse.
Until 30 August. Bookings at BASS 131 246
$10 children, $20 adults, $50 family.

We already know quite a lot about Trim, the Captain’s Cat – from the captain himself. While held by the French authorities in Mauritius for seven years, Matthew Flinders wrote a Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim, …

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August 01, 2003

Survivor – or Big Brother ?

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 …

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Mind Games

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 …

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