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June 02, 2006

Rising to robust demands

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

Mr Bailey’s Minder

By Debra Oswald

Directors’ Choice Season

Holden Street Theatres

The Studio

Until 10 June.

Murray Bramwell

Leo Bailey –  the chaotic, alcoholic, undeniably gifted, painter at the centre of Debra Oswald’s play – is an identikit of any number of Aussie painters of the past thirty years. The blokes, that is, who lived large, selfish, womanizing lives, squandered their money and fame, and found themselves with few friends to speak of, and even fewer family members …

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Mr Bailey’s Minder

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

By Debra Oswald

Directors’ Choice Season

Holden Street Theatres

The Studio

Until 10 June.

Murray Bramwell

Leo Bailey –  the chaotic, alcoholic, undeniably gifted, painter at the centre of Debra Oswald’s play – is an identikit of any number of Aussie painters of the past thirty years. The blokes, that is, who lived large, selfish, womanizing lives, squandered their money and fame, and found themselves with few friends to speak of, and even fewer family members to speak to. …

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May 30, 2006

Bashings and Bumps in the Night

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2006

Bash

by Neil Labute

Directors’ Choice Season

Holden Street Theatres

Until 16 September.

The Woman in Black

Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill

Her Majesty’s.

Until 9 September.

Murray Bramwell

American playwright Neil Labute has called them latterday plays, but the characters in Bash, his triple bill of one-act pieces, are anything but latter day saints. Raised in Utah as a Mormon himself, Labute draws on these experiences to represent the everyday quality of …

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May 29, 2006

Entitlements and Subject Positions

Filed under: Archive,Books

2006

Dante’s Heaven by Jan Kemp, Puriri Press, $30.00, ISBN 090894330X

Beauty Sleep by Kate Camp, Victoria University Press, $24.95, ISBN 0864735111

The Gas Leak by Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, $21.99, ISBN 1869403568

In the fragile world of poetry publishing it is always interesting to see what’s in a name. The title of any art work is important but in the verbal economy of poetry it is doubly so. The title has to intrigue and, literally, divert us. It …

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May 12, 2006

Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Murray Bramwell

Beautiful Words
By Sean Riley
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.
May 10. Tickets $ 18- 32. bookings BASS 131 246
Thursday to Saturday until May 20, 2006

People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …

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Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

Murray Bramwell

Beautiful Words

By Sean Riley

Oddbodies Theatre Company

Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.

May 10. Tickets  $ 18- 32.  bookings BASS 131 246

Thursday to Saturday until May 20.

People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in  history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …

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Adelaide Theatre

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2006

Murray Bramwell

Beautiful Words

By Sean Riley

Oddbodies Theatre Company

Higher Ground , Rundle Street, Adelaide.

May 10. Tickets  $ 18- 32.  bookings BASS 131 246

Thursday to Saturday until May 20.

People don’t like other people. That is the frequently repeated observation in Sean Riley’s splendidly engaging play, Beautiful Words – and its implications, in  history and our own communities, are everywhere apparent. We love our own kind, and fear and despise those who are different. Until, of …

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March 24, 2006

Festival Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Festival

2006

Here Lies Love
David Byrne
Ridley Centre

The Three Furies
By Stephen Sewell
Dunstan Playhouse

Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Scott Theatre

David Byrne is just the sort of person you want in a Festival. Since fronting the innovative, late 70s band Talking Heads, his singular career has continued to thrive with a fascinating array of projects – and his world premiere of Here Lies Love, a song cycle based on the life of Imelda Marcos, written in collaboration with …

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Fringe Notes

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2006
Murray Bramwell

Whenever the Fringe is talked about – big statistics are sure to follow. In 2006 there are 4000 artists, 1400 technicians, 500 acts and 6000 performances. That is a lot of action – and in the Darwinian struggle for audiences some already will have come to grief at the box office.

In theatre, where more than a hundred items are listed, Adelaide is seeing a quantum increase in activity and, already, a great deal that is engaging …

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In the Fringe

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2006
Murray Bramwell

In the profusion of the Fringe program has been a music program variously including Dave Graney, Shooglenifty, Monique Brumby and others, but the standout has to be Richard Thompson at the Norwood Concert Hall. From his days in Fairport Convention and through his distinguished solo career, Thompson has long been the guitarists’ guitarist and the composers’ composer. His show is a mix of songs ancient and modern – the plaintive Crazy Man Michael, the high revving 1952 …

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