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November 26, 2004

Collateral Damage

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2004

Euripides’ Trojan Women
Adapted by Rosalba Clement and Dawn Langman

State Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is not surprising that the Greek drama speaks so strongly to us now, because it also spoke strongly to its own audience. And none more so than the works of Euripides. His plays confronted the Athenian audience with an unwelcome mirror of its prejudices, its cruelty and its follies. Even such legendary victories as the sacking of Troy Euripides …

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November 18, 2004

Stark beauty lost in chorus line

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

17 November, 2004
Murray Bramwell

Euripides’ Trojan Women
Adapted by Rosalba Clemente and Dawn Langman

State Theatre Company of South Australia.
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
16 November
Tickets $ 17 – $ 45.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 27 November, 2004

Even in Euripides’ grim repertoire there are few more harrowing plays than The Trojan Women. His subject, once again, is the cruelty and pity of war. The occasion is the gloating victory of the Greeks over the Trojans …

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November 08, 2004

Shift of wind needed before Pinafore sails

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2004

Adelaide
Music Theatre

HMS Pinafore
WS.Gilbert and A. Sullivan
Carl Rosa Company
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide.

4 November, 2004
Tickets $ 49 – $ 79
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 7 November, 2004

Murray Bramwell

The Carl Rosa Opera Company occupied a distinguished part of English operatic history  from its establishment in 1873 through to the late 1950s. It presented the first English productions of Carmen, Lohengrin and Aida and would have staged the works of Gilbert and Sullivan had …

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November 05, 2004

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2004
Murray Bramwell

An Evening With Queen Victoria
Prunella Scales

Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
1 November, 2004
Tickets $ 40 – $ 69.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 3 November.

Melbourne
The Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio
6 -7 November, 2004

Geelong
Ford Theatre
9 November, 2004

Cairns
Civic Theatre
23 -24 November, 2004

Townsville
Civic Theatre
25 November, 2004

Rockhampton
Pilbeam Theatre
26 November, 2004

Canberra
The Playhouse
29 30 November, 2004

Albury
Performing Arts centre
1 December, 2004…

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November 01, 2004

Watch Me, Watch Me …Vanish

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

4:48 Psychosis
by Sarah Kane

Brink Productions
in association with Budgie Lung Theatre
Queen’s Theatre

Murray Bramwell

Sarah Kane didn’t write prefaces for her plays. She said that if they were any good they would stand alone. But in her case it was never going to be that simple. When, in 1998, she committed suicide at the age of 28, she caused the kind of literary sensation that had not been seen since the death of Sylvia Plath nearly forty …

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