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 …
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