Muse
Thebarton Theatre
Murray Bramwell
It is only eight months since we saw UK band Muse at Big Day Out, but now they are back with more fans and a lot more fanfare. Their stocks have risen with the release of their latest album, Absolution, a recent tour with The Cure, and their steady determination to prevail. There have been comparisons – with Radiohead, for instance, and the latter end of Britpop – but increasingly, Muse is taking inspiration from …
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Laughing Wild
by Christopher Durang
The Getaway Bus
by Ingle Knight
Festival of One
Bakehouse Theatre
September, 2004.
Murray Bramwell
After a late scratching from Series Three of Bakehouse Theatre’s Festival of One, comes the welcome addition of Laughing Wild, a thirty minute monologue from American writer Christopher Durang. Taking its title from Samuel Beckett – “Laughing wild amidst severest woe” – it features an unnamed young woman who is repeatedly colliding with the world.
First, it is …
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
State Theatre Company of South Australia.
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
21September. 2004 Tickets $ 17 – $ 45.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 9 October.
Why does all the tribulation in Shakespeare’s tragedies hinge on flimsy plot devices like stolen handkerchiefs and misdelivered letters ? What if these plays were really meant to be comedies ? These are the questions asked by Constance Ledbelly, the central …
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
State Theatre Company
of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, August 2004.
Murray Bramwell
Arthur Miller once said his plays were about how the birds come home to roost, one by one, back to the branch. He meant that there is a tragic theme in his work, and his characters, more than most, reap what they sow. But his pessimism is not to be mistaken for futility. In the struggle against their fate and …
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Vanishing Point
Compagnie Philippe Genty
Her Majesty’s
September, 2004.
Murray Bramwell
It is startling to think that Philippe Genty has been performing in Australia for more than thirty years. His company featured at the Festival in 1978 and again in Adelaide in 1996, when, in collaboration with Australian artists, they generated a new work, Stowaways. Genty has had a long association with this country and, for many in the audience, his blend of illusion and movement has been their …
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