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May 14, 2004

Clones expose a moral dilemma

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2004
Murray Bramwell

A Number
by Caryl Churchill

State Theatre of South Australia
Festival Centre Space.
Until 29 May. 2004
Bookings – BASS 131 246
Tickets $17 – $ 45.

Queensland Theatre Company
Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse.
17 June – 3 July
Bookings –
Tickets $ 20 – $ 35

Whenever the subject of cloning human beings is raised, images from cinema science fiction are never far behind. With herds of mindless, robotic replicants – whether the smooth limbed Aryans …

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May 01, 2004

Running on Plenty

Filed under: Archive,Music

Jackson Browne
Festival Theatre

Murray Bramwell

Fourteen guitars – all in a row. The show is billed as solo acoustic but it looks like the set up for the Eagles. Jackson Browne admits it is “obnoxious” for one person to have quite so many instruments but, he confides, he needs all those special tunings.

He certainly has plenty of special tunes. For more than thirty years and twelve albums, Jackson Browne has had the patent on the California sound which …

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Tests of Character

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

Talking Heads
by Alan Bennett
Her Majesty’s

Murray Bramwell

Originally, there were six Talking Heads in Alan Bennett’s splendid set of monologues written for BBC Television and broadcast in 1989. Featuring some of the best actors in the UK – Julie Walters, Thora Hird , Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole and Maggie Smith – they were a great success. Several selections were subsequently staged in 1992 directed  by Bennett himself. He then took a further production to the Chichester Festival in …

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