3 October, 2003
Murray Bramwell
drowning in my ocean of You
by Fiona Sprott
State Theatre Company
Adelaide, Queen’s Theatre
until 18 October, 2003 Bookings at BASS 131 246
Tickets $ 16.50 – $ 42
Being at the end of a pier is not the same as being as at the end of your tether, but it is very close. In Fiona Sprott’s drowning in my ocean of You, her characters, known generically as Heroine and Hero, Mother and Handsome …
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by Fiona Sprott
State Theatre Company
Queen’s Theatre
Murray Bramwell
It must be many years since a red velvet curtain has been seen in the appealingly dilapidated Queen’s Theatre, but it suits the mannered theatrics of Fiona Sprott’s drowning in my ocean of You, a play for voices and crooners set at the edge of a pier and, at times, at the edge of the wits as well. In this commissioned work for State …
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
by Edward Albee
State Theatre Company
Space, October 2003.
Murray Bramwell
Poor Virginia Woolf. She is almost as famous for belonging in the quirky title of Edward Albee’s play as she is for To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway . A whole generation has wondered how she could be so scary, when, in fact, she has been commandeered only for the sake of a literary joke. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf ? …
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Para//elo
Queen’s Theatre
September, 2003
Murray Bramwell
The rehearsal room for Parallelo’s Distance Project has not been in a building but on a website. For several years the company – previously known as Doppio Teatro – has, through the auspices of artistic director, Teresa Crea, brought together a diaspora of artists from Teatro Kismet in Italy, Theatre Athenor in France and the Nottingham Playhouse in the UK. Crea and video artist, Laurent Dupont co-ordinated contributions …
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Murray Bramwell
Football is not the only reason for incursions over the Victorian border. The Melbourne International Arts Festival opens this month from 9th to the 25th. This is the second year for Robyn Archer as Artistic Director and, because she learnt a great deal from her time at the Adelaide Festival, Melbourne is definitely the city to watch – and watch out for. If we, in Adelaide, have a rival for pre-eminence in the festival business, …
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with Joe Camilleri and Bakelite Radio
Thebarton Theatre
Murray Bramwell
I’ve always thought of Joe Jackson as part of that triumvirate which also included Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. They were the Auden, Spender and MacNeice of the late seventies. Their lyrics mordantly capturing the spirit of the age just as Auden and his fellow poets had in the grim times of the 1930s. Costello wrote the dense punning lyrics, Parker burned with the gem-like flame, and Joe …
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