2008
Adelaide Fringe 2008
Comedy
Rove McManus
Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
March 15.
Melbourne Comedy Festival
Melbourne Town Hall
April 10-12. Tickets $39.90 – $ 44.50.
On stage for Rove McManus’s stand-up gig at the Thebarton Theatre is a giant picture of a goldfish in a bowl. The fish has large Disney eyes and extruding from its tail, in streaming black calligraphy comes Rove’s famous name. It is a joke very much at his own expense and it is a likeable …
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Botanic Park
March 7 – 9
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Womadelaide this year will be remembered because the weather was seriously hot – and so was the music program. When even the usually green swath of Botanic Park is looking parched and dusty we know that climate change is not just an Al Gore lecture and the current drought is getting very worrying. The temperatures climbed into the forties and day time sessions tested even the young and …
Continue Reading Back to topCat 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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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 …
Continue Reading Back to topThe 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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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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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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