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October 20, 2006

Lost in Translation

Two
by Jim Cartwright

Wheatsheaf Hotel
12 October, 2006

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Anyone who remembers Road, given a memorable ride by Adelaide’s Red Shed Company in its heyday, will be alert to the name Jim Cartwright. Just as Road was like a profane and poetic underclass Milk Wood, so Two, directed by Toni Main and featuring a cast of newly emerging local actors, is also based around a motley collection of desperate characters struggling with adversity, sometimes of their …

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October 19, 2006

Drama of sadness and merry whistling

2006
Murray Bramwell

Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Adam Cook

State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 17. Tickets $13.50 – 50. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until 4 November, 2006.

Chekhov has challenged directors from the beginning. Stanislavsky found The Seagull such a puzzle he was prompted to invent an entirely new approach to actor training. Of Uncle Vanya, the second of the four great dramas which Chekhov wrote in the last …

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