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March 02, 2007

Time Travel

2007

This Uncharted Hour
By Finegan Kruckemeyer
Brink Productions and
State Theatre of South Australia
13 February. Dunstan Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

As its title suggests This Uncharted Hour is a venture into unnavigated territory. The central character, Luka, begins a day like any other but when a dog runs in the path of his car, things start to go awry. In his consternation, the young man goes driving near old haunts for a close encounter (in a Fellini-ish …

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February 16, 2007

Trick or Treat

2007

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Yohangza Theatre Company, South Korea.
Dunstan Playhouse.
February 1. 2007

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It is a credit to Douglas Gautier’s plan to revive the program in the Festival Centre that he has brought this sprightly – and spritely – adaptation so auspiciously early. It is smart to link with the Sydney Festival and get the benefit of their line-up – may there be more of it. And, in selecting this skilful Korean company and …

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Rock Art

Filed under: Archive,Music

Roger Waters
Entertainment Centre
February 7.

Eric Clapton
Entertainment Centre
February 9.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

It has been a busy time at the Entertainment Centre with two of the biggest names in British rock playing within two days of each other and The Scissor Sisters getting in for their snip as well. The word is that the current world tour is a victory lap for Roger Waters – victory, that is, over the other seventy five percent of Pink …

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February 15, 2007

Family secrets unfold as dream

2007

This Uncharted Hour
By Finegan Kruckemeyer
Brink Productions and
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
February 13. Tickets: $17-$ 50. Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until February 24, 2007.

It might be called the Crash method, or the Babel syndrome – to name two recent films which conjure narrative from a series of apparently unconnected events. Finegan Kruckemeyer’s ambitious chamber play, This Uncharted Hour, also uses a kind of butterfly effect to explore a …

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February 02, 2007

Pretenders Rule in the Rain

Filed under: Archive,Music

The Pretenders, with
Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions,
The Church, Josh Pyke.

A Day on the Green
Annie’s Lane Winery, Watervale.
January 20.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

While it was a welcome break to the South Australian drought and a boon to the state’s near North where it fell most heavily, the enormous hogshead of rain that unloaded on well-named Watervale, seemed sure to mean that A Day on the Green would be a night in the mire.

It …

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January 19, 2007

Playing to Strengths

2007

Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff

Patch Theatre Company

Dunstan Playhouse

Adelaide Festival Centre

12 January.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

You could be forgiven for thinking that the hottest ticket in Adelaide in January is a show about homicidal wolves, goat-stalking trolls and delinquent girls purloining porridge from unsuspecting families of bears. The foyer of the Dunstan Playhouse is buzzing with kids, the auditorium by curtain time is full. Six shows have quickly sold out with no seats to …

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