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June 19, 2007

Outside the Square

Filed under: Archive,Cabaret

Gyan and Leunig:
Billy the Rabbit
Dunstan Playhouse
June 10.

Point Blank
Dave Graney
JB Room
June 13

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
Tina C and Auriel Andrew
Banquet Room
June 14

Shane Warne: The Musical
by Eddie Perfect
Dunstan Playhouse
June 17.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2007
Adelaide Festival Centre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is wintertime and the living is again easy at the re-activated Festival Centre. Despite the nippy nights, devotees of the cabaret form – …

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May 25, 2007

Something to Celebrate

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Theatre

2007

The Birthday Party

by Harold Pinter

Flying Penguin Productions

Queen’s Theatre

May 16.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

A room is never a safe place with Harold Pinter. Once inside, you never know what confrontation might occur. But then again, there is also what might be waiting outside – when someone inevitably knocks at the door.  Written in 1958,The Birthday Party celebrates its fiftieth next year and David Mealor’s brisk and engaging production at the Queens Theatre shows this …

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April 13, 2007

Boy Wonder

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2007

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company

and Queensland Theatre Company

April 3. Dunstan Playhouse. Until April 21

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The main task with Hamlet is to make him come alive. Whatever the leanings in interpretation  – that he be older or younger, bookish scholar or renaissance cleverboots, devious or bi-polar – Hamlet has to engage us in his bid to unmask a murder conspiracy, even though he says, and does, things which don’t add up. This …

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April 05, 2007

Dazzling sketches don’t measure up to tragedy

Filed under: Archive,State Theatre Company,Theatre

2007

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

State Theatre Company of South Australia
And Queensland Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre.
April 3. Tickets: $17-$ 60. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until April 21, 2007

A new version of Hamlet is the chance to see the latest plausible hypothesis. The Dane, after all, is a most enigmatic fellow and the task of both actor and director is to present him, from the ghost scene to the endgame duel, as if all …

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March 30, 2007

Thriving outside Festival’s shadow

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2007

March 29
Adelaide

Adelaide Fringe 07
Mutzenball
by Little Black Box
Fringe Factory
Until March 31`
Tickets: $ 20. Bookings at Fringetix. Ph.8418 8666

B File
by Deborah Levy
Stone/Castro Company
Holden Street Theatre
March 26

Ross Noble – Fizzy Logic
Royalty Theatre until March 31
Tickets: $ 40. Bookings at Fringetix. Ph.8418 8666
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
April 5 – 21. Ticketmaster 1300 660 013

Mark Watson
Nova Cinema 2 until March 31
Tickets: $29. Bookings at Fringetix. …

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Fringe Notes

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2007
Adelaide Fringe 07
Ends March 31.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

With the Fringe in its final week, Artistic Director Christie Anthoney can be well pleased. The festival met its hundred thousand ticket sales target by the mid-way point and has kept powering on. The Garden of Unearthly Delights has proven popular with venues offering everything from carny shows, the late night So Co Cargo club and a program of musicians at the excellent Bosco Theater. Elsewhere, the grunge Fringe …

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March 20, 2007

Global Songlines

Filed under: Archive,Womadelaide

Womadelaide : Sounds of the Planet 2007
March 9 -11.

Murray Bramwell samples some recent CDs from this year’s Womadelaide artists.

It is now only a week away. Well established in its annual cycle, Womadelaide, follows the seasons back into the Adelaide autumn. And, after such a parched summer, the cool green expanse and easy shade of Botanic Park seems more beguiling than ever. This year’s is the eleventh event and marks the fifteenth anniversary of this “world of music …

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March 16, 2007

Fringe Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2007

What I Heard About Iraq
By Simon Levy
Holden Street Theatres’ Directors’ Choice 07

George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Adapted by Guy Masterson
Performed by Gary Shelford

Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson

Holden Street Theatres
Until March 31

Tom Crean –Antarctic Explorer
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Bakehouse Theatre until March 23

Murray Bramwell

Holden Street is again one of the strongholds of Fringe theatre this year and the manager of the complex, Martha …

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Numbers down but stellar performances

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2007
March 15

Adelaide
Theatre
Adelaide Fringe 07

Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas
Performed by Guy Masterson
Tickets $20 -25.

What I Heard About Iraq
By Simon Levy
Holden Street Theatres’ Directors’ Choice 07

Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh
Tickets $17 -23.
Until March 31

Tom Crean –Antarctic Explorer
Written and performed by Aidan Dooley
Bakehouse Theatre until March 23
Tickets$20 – $22.

Rubeville
The Black Lung Theatre
until March 24
Kissy Kissy
The Black Lung Theatre
145 Hindley Street…

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March 13, 2007

Harmonising the World

Filed under: Archive,Womadelaide

Womadelaide
Sounds of the Planet 2007
March 9 -11. Botanic Park, Adelaide.

Murray Bramwell

Womadelaide has celebrated its fifteenth birthday in high style. With record attendances and nudging the crowd capacity of twenty thousand on Saturday night, it is still, along with Big Day Out, Adelaide’s favourite music event. But unlike BDO, which sweats it out at the Wayville Showgrounds, Womad’s access to the splendid green sward of Botanic Park makes it especially favoured. If it hadn’t been for that …

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