Adelaide Fringe March 2004
Murray Bramwell
There is nothing like a visit to a psychic to give your brain a tweak and that is exactly what Michael Santos is here to do. Or maybe he will just do your head in. With Sidekick Bernard and not-very-subtle audience plant, Raymond, Santos (aka David Sant) is the Mindbender, reaching into the audience to tell us – Raymond’s radio mike permitting – our names, addresses and our deepest thoughts. It is hilariously cheesy …
Continue Reading Back to topBig Day Out
Wayville Showgrounds
Murray Bramwell
This year’s is the twelfth Big Day Out and I think I’ve been to all but four. Nevermind that I wasn’t cool enough to see Kurt Cobain back in 1992, the BDO has been just the thing for a music tourist like me. Every food group in popular music is represented from high protein to extreme carbohydrate and – with seven venues running in parallel universes – for the price of a ticket …
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Murray Bramwell
The Fringe theatre program is strong this year and deserves support. Now is the time to have a binge – we won’t have anything like as many chances once the Fringe and Festival tide recedes and we are back in dark old Adelaide again. We can regret that the program is a crowded one and that no-one realistically can see more than a fraction of the ninety-something theatre productions listed, but with a range of international shows …
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Horse Country
by C.J. Hopkins
Clancy Productions
Eclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
Until 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
Tickets $15 – $29.
Sydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
9 – 28 March.
Cincinnati
by Don Nigro
Clancy Productions
Eclipse, FringeHUB, Level 4 , Adelaide University
Until 6 March. Bookings FringeTIX (08) 8100 2004.
Tickets $15 – $29.
Sydney season Belvoir Street Downstairs
9-28 March
Morph
by Brendan Cowell
Fresh Track Productions
Little Theatre, FringeHUB, Adelaide …
2004
Turin Brakes
Fowlers Live
Murray Bramwell
Just three days into January and we may already be seeing one of the year’s best. UK band, Turin Brakes, on the rebound from the Falls Festival, are playing to a tiny but attentive crowd at Fowlers Live and showing just why they have gathered such a big reputation since their exceptional debut album, The Optimist, first appeared in 2001.
Touted as nu acoustica, along with the likes of I am Kloot, …
Continue Reading Back to topMoonfleet
adapted by Catherine Zimdahl
Windmill Performing Arts and
Mainstreet Theatre Company
Carrick Hill
Murray Bramwell
Windmill Performing Arts has a three year arrangement with the Mt Gambier based Mainstreet Theatre Company and, by the look of their first joint venture, the combination is going to be a happy one. Mainstreet director Teresa Bell has taken an adaptation by playwright Catherine Zimdahl of Moonfleet, J.M.Falkner’s lively story of smugglers, ghosts and true destinies, and turned it into an engaging promenade …
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Murray Bramwell
The official Fringe program is out and, once again, it is a humungous collection of human activity and human endeavour. Take the Theatre section, for instance. I counted ninety seven listings. That means at least ten times that many people have got themselves organised, forked out their own money and are putting on a show – for themselves, their friends, families, to impress their lovers and punish their ex-s, and to entertain the passing punters, like us, …
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Fringe Comedy
Murray Bramwell
Before television re-discovered Australian humour and FM breakfast executives began strip-mining the stand-up industry, comedy at the Adelaide Fringe was all one big lucky dip where Funny Stories, LosTrios Ringbarkus, the Doug Anthony Allstars, Flacco, the Jet Black Cowboy and the Castanet Club could all be found.
Now we know our comics through Rove and ABC vehicles like The Glass House so many comedians already have a profile and a pedigree.
Looking through the list …
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Murray Bramwell previews the State Theatre program for 2004.
There has never been a more important time for the State Theatre Company, and the responsibilities on Artistic Director Rosalba Clemente, now in her fourth year, are greater than ever. Much has been said in the past about flagship companies. Some have even speculated that we don’t need them any more. But that was in more buoyant times than these. Adelaide needs its flagship company – to show artistic leadership, …
Continue Reading Back to topWomadelaide 2004 Previewed
Womadelaide will soon be upon us: from 5 -7 March, to be exact. And, yes, it does seem like only a year ago. Now an annual fixture, Womad, this year, is tucked under the wing of the Adelaide Festival- as it was for its inaugural presentation back in 1992.
The appeal of this event is hardly a mystery – a diverse program of splendid music, impeccable production values, the green sward and shady Moreton Bay figs of …
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