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October 26, 2007

A Festival of Light and Enlightenment

Filed under: Archive,Festival

Artistic Director Brett Sheehy talks about his 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts with Murray Bramwell

The Adelaide Festival took something of a thumping in the early part of the 21st century. The Peter Sellars Experiment in 2002, while not a catastrophe in itself, nevertheless unsteadied the balance for a cultural event with a proud forty year history. Perhaps it was the timing – with other capital city festivals on the ascendant. Perth was looking good and Melbourne, especially, was …

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October 19, 2007

Theatre Adelaide

2007

LyreBird : Tales of Helpmann

by Tyler Coppin

State Theatre Company

Of South Australia

Space Theatre

Adelaide Festival Centre

October 16. Until November 3.

Tickets $17 – $55.  Bookings BASS 131 246

It was in 1964, in The Display, the first fully home-grown work by the Australian Ballet, that choreographer Robert Helpmann introduced the dance of the lyrebird as a metaphor for Australian male attitudes. Now, in a welcome return, nine years after it premiered at the 1998 …

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October 12, 2007

Family First

2007

The Homecoming

by Harold Pinter

Floogle

Holden Street Theatres

Directors’ Choice 2007

October 3. Until October 20.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

They have been called comedies of menace and the term is apt. There is something claustrophobic about the settings of Harold Pinter’s domestic dramas, whether it is the crummy Brighton boarding digs of The Birthday Party, the derelict house in The Caretaker or the dingy North London location of The Homecoming. Each is a closed little …

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October 01, 2007

Adelaide OzAsia Festival 2007

China
By William Yang
Space Theatre
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 26.

The Eyes of Marege
By Julie Janson
Australian Performance Exchange
And Teater Kita Makassar
Dunstan Playhouse
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 27.

To look from Arnhem Land, across the horizon of the Timor Sea towards Sulawesi, is to see with the Eyes of Marege. For four hundred years the Yolngu people traded and intermarried with the Makassan fishermen and mariners from Indonesia – until 1904, when all dealings were terminated …

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