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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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