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December 15, 2006

Son of a Gun

Filed under: Archive,Music

Teddy Thompson
Governor Hindmarsh
November 29.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

I first came across Teddy Thompson on the I’m Your Man tribute concert album for Leonard Cohen – songs recorded in Brighton, England and at Brett Sheehy’s final Sydney Festival. Featured artists also included Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Kate’s increasingly celebrated offspring, Martha and Rufus Wainwright.

Teddy Thompson had been around well before that, I discover – his first album released in …

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December 03, 2006

Lost for Words

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

Private Lives
By Noel Coward

State Theatre Company of South Australia
and Queensland Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse
Until December 13, 2006.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Of Private Lives, a play he wrote in four days in 1929 while staying at the Cathay Hotel in Shanghai, Noel Coward remarked it “was well-constructed on the whole, but psychologically unstable.” He describes writing it propped up in bed with a writing block and an Eversharp pencil – and it is certainly an eversharp …

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