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March 13, 2008

Adelaide Festival 2008 Theatre

Filed under: Archive,Festival

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide. March 11.
Until 16 March.

Since one of the highlights of Brett Sheehy’s 2006 Adelaide Festival was Nora, the theatrically inventive re-framing of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Berlin’s Schaubuhne Theatre, the company’s scheduled return this year with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has created high expectations and a great opportunity for festival audiences not only to renew the connection with director …

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Adelaide Festival Theatre

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Schaubuhne am Lehniner Platz Berlin
Her Majesty’s, Adelaide. March 11.
Until 16 March.

Since one of the highlights of Brett Sheehy’s 2006 Adelaide Festival was Nora, the theatrically inventive re-framing of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Berlin’s Schaubuhne Theatre, the company’s scheduled return this year with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has created high expectations and a great opportunity for festival audiences not only to renew the connection with director …

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March 10, 2008

Narrative fail to nail their man

Filed under: Archive,Festival

The Angel and The Red Priest
by Sean Riley
Music direction by Gabriela Smart
Oddbodies Theatre Company
Adelaide Centre for the Arts, Light Square.
March 2.

Lovers and Haters
by Maureen Sherlock and Rob George
Music by Quentin Eyers
Prospect Productions and the Adelaide Festival
Norwood Town Hall, March 6.
Tickets $40- $50. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until March 16.

Two new works in the Adelaide Festival dealing with historical figures have produced wildly different results. The priest in The …

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March 03, 2008

Adelaide Festival Theatre

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Murray Bramwell

When the Rain Stops Falling
by Andrew Bovell
in collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh
Brink Productions and State Theatre Company of South Australia
Scott Theatre, Adelaide. February 28.
Tickets $25 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until 15 March.

Moving Target
by Marius von Mayenburg
Translated by Maja Zade
Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Opera House
Odeon Theatre, Adelaide. February.29
Tickets $25 -$49. Bookings Venue*TIX (08) 8225 8888.
Until March 8.

Two keenly anticipated works have been unveiled for the …

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March 01, 2008

Friends and Other Strangers

Filed under: Archive,Books

Playing Friends
by Marilyn Duckworth
Vintage, $27.99.
ISBN 9781869418694

Trendy But Casual
by Paula Morris
Penguin, $28.00.
ISBN 9780143006398

It’s that time in later middle age when school reunions have become like a dawn (or twilight) parade of veterans and survivors. Those wraiths from our childish past, conjured up on the OldFriends website, or actually manifest in front of us with glass in hand – just subtract forty five years of subcutaneous sag and add colour to the grey.

In …

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February 29, 2008

Fringe Notes

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

With a Friday night party in Rundle Street which brought early rain and an estimated forty thousand revelers, artists, organizers, supporters, and variously innocent bystanders, the Fringe has begun. It is on for one and all – with the weekend Clipsal fans also joining the throng and plenty of Ford and Holden regalia visible on the streets, queuing for shows, and sampling the wares in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

The response to the Fringe is …

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February 28, 2008

Captivating celebration of the unexpected

Filed under: Archive,Fringe

2008
February 27

Adelaide Fringe 08

Playing Burton
Performed by Josh Richards
The Arch, Holden Street Theatres, Hindmarsh
Tickets $19.50 – $ 24.90
Until March 16

The Smile Off Your Face
Ontroerend Goed
The Jelly Belly, Fringe Factory Theatre, Elizabeth St
Tickets $12 – $15
Until March 16

La Clique
The Masonic Centre, 254 North Terrace
Tickets $40- $50
Until March 16
Bookings at FringeTix Ph1300 374643.

Now an annual fixture the Adelaide Fringe comes back sooner – and literally …

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February 10, 2008

Looking Through the Fringe

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Murray Bramwell previews some of the 2008 program

There is something almost inexplicably exponential about the Adelaide Fringe. It just keeps getting bigger. From its modest beginnings 48 years ago, it has continued – like its Edinburgh namesake – to play doppelganger and frisky sibling to the main Festival. And, as in Edinburgh, it has expanded so greatly that it dwarfs the Festival itself – in size at least, if not in substance. The relationship between Festival and Fringe, once …

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February 01, 2008

On Target and On Song

Assassins

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by John Weidman

Flying Penguin Productions

and Adelaide Festival Centre iNspace Program

The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia

December 7-15, 2007.

Directed by David Mealor

Music Director Matthew Carey

There have been four Australian productions of Assassins since it first opened Off-Broadway in 1990 and was remounted in London in 1992. And, of those, only two have been professional productions – the Melbourne Theatre Company version in 1995 and this, most …

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Boy Story

2008

The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy

Written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, conceived by Andy Packer

Slingsby Productions

The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre

January 24.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

The summer season of young people’s theatre at the Festival Centre has provided a fine opportunity for Slingsby Productions to show their wares. Artistic Director Andy Packer sees his company’s brief as providing “emotionally complex and original stories” with high production values. He refers to Slingsby’s work as “theatrickery” – which is an …

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