2007
Adam Cook talks to Murray Bramwell about actors, audiences and his big ideas for the State Theatre Season for 2008.
From the time he first presented himself as a candidate for the job of Artistic Director Adam Cook made it clear that the pitch is very important. It doesn’t matter how good the season is if no-one turns up to the shows.
Three years later, and he is still enjoying playing Saatchi to his own Saatchi as, over coffee …
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Adam Cook talks to Murray Bramwell about actors, audiences and his big ideas for the State Theatre Season for 2008.
From the time he first presented himself as a candidate for the job of Artistic Director Adam Cook made it clear that the pitch is very important. It doesn’t matter how good the season is if no-one turns up to the shows.
Three years later, and he is still enjoying playing Saatchi to his own Saatchi as, over coffee …
Continue Reading Back to topSpace Travel
Stephen Cummings
Liberation Music
Stephen Cummings has always been a bit of a space cadet, so his latest release Space Travel is just the sort of out-there quirky lyrical journey of the heart you’d want him to take. There is something heroic about Cummings’ persistence as an artist – novelist, songwriter, and power pop legend from The Sports – and with this album (astutely produced by Bill McDonald) he shows, with his fine-grained vocals and memorable tunes, that …
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By John Patrick Shanley
State Theatre Company presents
The Sydney Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse.
September 6. Until September 22, 2007
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
It has been a productive time for Adelaide theatre in recent weeks. At the Bakehouse, Vitalstatistix has staged an excellent production, directed by Catherine Fitzgerald, of Love, Patricia Cornelius’s award-winning Australian play about a lovers’ triangle plunging into addiction and youthful despair. And for young audiences, Windmill Productions has presented a charming home-grown version of …
Continue Reading Back to topBob Dylan
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
August 21
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
On his seventh time round, and his fourth since the Never-ending Tour began in 1989, Bob Dylan, the time lord, is back. Much has happened since we last saw him. First he published the first volume of his Chronicles, then there was the Scorsese documentary No Direction Home, including some of most extensive and candid interviews with Dylan ever seen. Things have changed, as he himself might say. After …
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Theatre
Adelaide
Love
By Patricia Cornelius
Vitalstatistix
The Bakehouse Theatre,
255 Angas Street, Adelaide.
August 22. Until September 1.
Tickets $15 – $25. Bookings Ph.8447 6211
“Love is a given”, observes writer Patricia Cornelius. ”We all believe we will feel it one day. Most of the time it is represented in a rather crass and ludicrous package but we buy the package anyway.” In the opening scene of her 2003 play Love, two young women, Tanya and Annie, …
Continue Reading Back to topThe Cure
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
August 6.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
With his back-combed black thatch, his scarlet lipstick and his dark drecky outfits, Robert Smith, founder and undisputed leader of The Cure, has been the Edward Scissorhands of pop music for the best part of thirty years. In that time he, and various permutations of his band, have produced more than twenty albums and an enviable list of boppy, instantly appealing singles. This has created two tiers of loyal …
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Triple Threat : A Triple Bill
Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen
By Tennessee Williams
Hot Fudge
By Caryl Churchill
Central Park West
By Woody Allen
State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre
July 10. Until July 28, 2007.
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
One of the more constant pressures on artistic directors of the State Theatre Company is to ensure there is plenty of work for local artists – whether actors, …
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Theatre
Adelaide
Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen
By Tennessee Williams
Hot Fudge
By Caryl Churchill
Central Park West
By Woody Allen
State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre
July 10, 2007 Until July 28.
Tickets $17 – $55. Bookings BASS 131 246
In theatre parlance a triple threat is someone who can dance and sing as well as act. But with this winter program on the mainstage of the Dunstan …
Continue Reading Back to topBack with a Vengeance
Barry Humphries
Her Majesty
June 29.
Until July 7, 2007
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Barry Humphries is celebrating fifty years as a music hall artiste. In 1957 Mrs Everage from Moonie Ponds first peered around the door with her beady eyes and imperious curiosity to say hello. She really was a housewife then, with dull straight hair and a drab cloth coat, but she knew aqua from duck-egg blue and of course, her prudery and pretensions …
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