2007

The Real Thing
By Tom Stoppard

State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
November 20, 2007. Until December 8.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

There is no doubting Tom Stoppard’s brilliance and he has written a number of modern classics – Travesties and Jumpers in the early Seventies, more recently the marvelous Arcadia, as well as (a neat program match for this year’s Hamlet perhaps ?) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The Real Thing, however, is not in the …

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The Real Thing
By Tom Stoppard

State Theatre Company
Of South Australia
Dunstan Playhouse
November 20. Until December 8.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

As Adam Cook’s 2007 State Theatre season draws to a close, it cannot be said that it has been his best. To seize the word back from Summer Heights parlance, it has been a random experience. While Cook has never made claims for any themes and threads – in fact, quite the reverse – the jump from …

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